Police are seeking the identity Saturday of a woman whose body was discovered around 8:40 a.m., floating in a stream near Route 24 in Bowdoinham.

Police are calling the death a homicide, though no details have been released about how she died.

The body was discovered in a tributary of the Cathance River by Lt. Calvin Temple, a long-time deputy with the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department, who was off-duty at the time.

By late in the day, Maine State Police officers had begun questioning people in the neighborhood, seeking any information they could on the unidentified woman, said Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

Police described the woman as being in her 20s or 30s, 5-feet-2-inches to 5-feet-3-inches tall and weighing between 145 and 165 pounds.

She had brown eyes and brown, shoulder-length hair that was dyed red. She had a pierced tongue. She was wearing was a blue polo shirt with the word “CARR” embroidered on the left chest of the shirt. Police are circulating a photograph of the shirt, hoping it will help identify the woman.

Details have been released to police agencies throughout the region, and detectives have begun to comb through missing persons reports in case family and friends already have been looking for the woman.

McCausland declined to speculate on how long the body may have been floating in the west branch of the river.

The body was taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Augusta, where it was being examined Saturday afternoon.