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2 unusual facts about Red Paint People


Moorehead Phase

Moorehead Phase of the Laurentian Tradition or the Moorehead burial tradition: The Red Paint People, who used large quantities of ochre, normally red, to cover both bodies and grave goods, 3000 BCE and 1000 BCE.

Moosehead Lake

Mount Kineo, with 700-foot (200 m) cliffs rising straight up from Moosehead Lake, has attracted visitors for centuries, from early American Indians (Red Paint People), to later tribes seeking its flint called hornstone, Penobscots and Norridgewocks, the Abenaki bands who battled here with their enemy the Mohawks, to 19th-century "rusticators" traveling by railroad and steamboat and today's hotel guests.



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