Peace Dale Museum of Art and Culture

COLLECTION

The museum’s collection includes objects from most major North American cultural areas, as well as from many different countries of the world. The oldest item is a hominid chopping tool from East Africa that dates to almost two million years ago. Some of our artifacts are:

  • Rhode Island arrow points and tools
  • Prehistoric stone artifacts from New England
  • Native New England woodsplint baskets
  • Native American baskets and pottery
  • Eskimo Kayak
  • Plains Indian clothing, bows, arrows, andstone-headed clubs
  • Stone Age and Bronze Age artifacts from Europe
  • Babylonian cuneiform tablet
  • East African lion hunting spears
  • West African masks and sculptures
  • Peruvian textiles