Tomaquag Museum
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).