Indigenous
New England
"We're Still Here"
Online Exhibit:
"We're Still Here"
Online Exhibit
Contemporary Indigenous New England Artists
Stan Neptune
Stan Neptune is a Penobscot root club carver from Passadumkeag, Maine. He learned his craft from master Penobscot carver Senabeh Francis, who showed him how to "find his tree" and shape the birch. Carving a complete war club averages about 40-60 hours and "each club requires patience and time to reveal itself to the carver."
Stan belongs to the Southern New England Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and the Maine Arts Commission's Apprenticeship Program.
Today's root clubs, such as those by Stan Neptune, Penobscot, are carved with warrior, spiritual, and animal faces and "express the natural continuum between the Indian past and the Indian present." (Joan Lester, Spirits in the Wood)
