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Adaptation and Resistance: Indigenous History of the Pejepscot RegionNotes
In the fall, Abenaki communities traveled to the coast to harvest fish, which they stored and ate throughout the year. Locations like the bottom of the falls on the Androscoggin River in Brunswick and Topsham, Maine were important subsistence spots where fish concentrated each year to spawn. Abenaki people attached fishing plummets like this one to lines and nets, weighing them down in deeper water. Seasonal subsistence activities like fishing are still important to Abenaki people and communities.
Long, large stone weight with one wide end and one end narrowed to a rounded point. The smaller end has a bulb that rope could be attached around.