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.
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Hello and welcome to the third installment of the Tomaquag Museum’s Belongings Blog, From the Archives series, in which our Archivist Anthony Belz will share some of the interesting items found in the Tomaquag Museum’s archival collections. This installment features a small color Instamatic photograph of the exterior of the Chief Poking Fire Museum located in Quebec, Canada.
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