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    N'tolonapemk on the Dennys River at Meddybemps Lake

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    Artist's rendering of the ancestral Passamaquoddy village site at the head of the Dennys River on Meddybemps Lake, known as N'tolonapemk. In the attached web link, Donald Soctomah, the Passamaquoddy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, explains the re-discovery and archeology of this ancient tribal village in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Artwork and filming used with gracious permission from Donald Soctomah and the Tribal Historic Preservation Office.

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    Donald Soctomah on Passamaquoddy Archaeology at Meddybemps
    Donald Soctomah answers questions about Passamaquoddy culture

    N'tolonapemk on the Dennys River at Meddybemps Lake; An artist's conception of the ancestral Passamaquoddy village on the shores of Meddybemps Lake, at the head of the Dennys River, by Martin Dana, used with permission of the Passamaquoddy Tribal Historic Preservation Office. Today it is known as N'tolonapemk, meaning
    N'tolonapemk, Meddybemps lake.; View of Meddybemps Lake, site of the ancestral Passamaquoddy village of N'tolonapemk, occupied 9000 years before the present, B.P. The stone artifact above the picture was found in three sections during the archeological excavation of the site in 2000, and may be a tool, a representation of a fish, or have some other function. Ancestral Passamaquoddy Forest Dwellers; Etching of ancestral Passamaquoddy forest dwellers on birchbark by Tomah Joseph, in an image from the film