Photo courtesy Penobscot Marine Museum
A man shows his catch of trout that were caught at Maynard’s Camps, on the Moose River, in Rockwood, Maine. He is identified as Native American Chief Needahbeh. Chief Needahbeh (promounced Ne-DAH-ba) was the
proprietor of Needahbeh’s Shack, a tackle shop at Moosehead Lake in Greenville. A Native American Penobscot, he was also known as Chief Roland Nelson and frequently demonstrated his native traditions at sporting shows.
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This photo, catalogue number LB2007.1.110178, is part of the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company collection at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine. It appears in The Early Twentieth Century in Glass Plate Photography, by W.H. Bunting, Kevin Johnson, and Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., published with the Penobscot Marine Museum.
