This story begins a few years ago when Narragansett Tribal Elder Dawn Dove donated her own personal signed copy of a vinyl record by a recording artist Leonda entitled, Woman in the Sun (1968). A wonderful donation for the collection-not only because the archive does not have very many vinyl records but it is also signed by the artist, which as something an archivist who is trying to build a archive here at the Tomaquag made this record unique and immediately worth preserving. In this installment, we’ll see how a worn vinyl record in the archives led us to discover the music of Leonda Hardison and her performance at the dedication of the “New Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum” in 1972.

Indigenous Musicians, Indigenous Artists, ArchivesTomaquag MuseumSeptember 30, 2020ArchivesComment

From the Archives: Princess Red Wing Television Interview, December 19, 1971

Welcome to the next installment in the Belongings Blog’s new series, From the Archives where we’ll share some interesting things found in the Tomaquag Museum’s archival collections. In this installment, our Archivist Anthony Belz will highlight a cassette tape recording of a television interview with Princess Red Wing (Mary E. Gongdon) from WHDA in Boston on December 19, 1971.

Indigenous Artists, Archives, Interview, Digitization, Indigenous ArtTomaquag MuseumJune 12, 2020Tomaquag MuseumIndigenous, Traditional Art, Powwow, Native Artists Comment

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