Tomaquag Museum

Red Wing to the Native Women's Council

"Music from the Start" by Princess Red Wing

Poem by Princess Red Wing

"Our Babies" by Princess Red Wing

Song by Princess Red Wing

Lullaby by Princess Red Wing

Brochure for day camp by Princess Red Wing

"To our Youth" by Cassius A. Champlin

Animal Lore by Lone Wolf

Letter from Chief Little Wolf to Red Wing

"A Niantic Review" by Fred V. Brown

Located in rural Exeter, RI, the Tomaquag Museum is one of the oldest Native-operated museums in New England. Now undergoing a period of revitalization, Tomaquag is beginning to digitize its considerable historical and archival holdings. The selections here come from the papers of Princess Red Wing (Ella Glasko Peek), the Narragansett/Wampanoag scholar and performer who founded the museum in 1954 with anthropologist Eva Butler. As this very slight sampling suggests, Red Wing was both a prolific writer (producing speeches, stories, poems and songs) as well as an avid collector. Her papers include many pieces from her time as editor of The Narragansett Dawn (1935-36).