Here, Marsden Hartley rendered coastal waves crashing against sea boulders. The scene evokes the name of the Penobscot tribe, which can translate to “where the white rocks open out” in the Abenaki language spoken by Indigenous people in Quebec and northeastern New England. Indian Point is the tip of a peninsula marking the entrance to the Sagadahoc Bay near Georgetown, Maine. This region, which has more than 80 miles of shoreline, was the territory of the Penobscot people, who lived along the Penobscot River to the north. Though decimated by war and by illnesses introduced by European colonizers, and forced to give up most of their land by the 1830s, the Penobscot Nation today protects and manages 90,000 acres of trust land in Maine.