Collection

Peace Dale Museum of Art and Culture

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

Moccasins, Sioux, possibly Hunkpapa; ca. 1880-1900 (30-1/H 1050).

Lidded treasure basket, Chumash, Santa Barbara, California; early 19th century (30-1/H 720).

Polychrome jar, Acoma style, New Mexico; ca. 1860-1880 (30-1/H 753) .

Shield, Lanao, Mindanao, Philippines; ca. 1875-1915 (30-1/H 1405).

Hand axe, France; Paleolithic period, Acheulean tradition (30-7/H 95).

H660 pottery figure Chancay culture Peru AD 1000-1470

Pendant to ward off the evil eye, Sudan, Africa; late 19th or early 20th century (78-1/H 1347).

Mask and raffia cloth, West Africa

H1343 spear with obsidian tip, Melanesia

Bone needle and blades, La Madeleine, Dordogne, France; Upper Paleolithic period, ca. 15,000 B.C. (30-2/H 79 and 30-2/H 81).

Our Museum Gallery is located on the second floor of the Peace Dale Office Building at 1058 Kingstown Road (Route 108) in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.