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On September 27, 1993 a barge called the Norfolk Trader was caught in a storm south of Little Compton. Some of the shipping containers broke lose in a storm. The containers contained Christmas presents for a department store including these Teddy Bears. The three Teddy Bears were found on the beach in Little Compton. This information is from a pamphlet "The Shipwrecked Teddy Bears" by Elizabeth Carpenter. This pamphlet is stored with the bears...
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Beatles Dress history by Pam Church. " The fabric for this dress was purchased in a small shop in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 1964. After seeing a similar but expensive dress in another shop, further investigation led us to this fabic panel, printed with the faces of the "Fab Four". Upon return to America, my Mom, Barbara Aldrich, fashioned this dress for me. This photograph of me (age 12) in the dress was taken the next Summer, August 1965.
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Eel spear. metal rake. Rake has seven tines which are arrow shaped blades and pointed.
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Certificate of Naturalization The United States of America. No. 6512638. Maria Oliveira 49 Years old, female, medium complexion, brown eyes, brown hair, 5'4" , 240 pounds, married, Portuguese, August 19, 1946. South of Commons, Little Compton
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Potato cutter. inscribed, "Aspinwall Potato Cutter. Made by Aspinwall Mfg. Co. Jackson, Mich. U.S.A." "Place the seed end against the plug"
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Small equilateral triangular point, complete except for minor loss at the tip of the point. Incurvate, unground base with some bifacial thinning of the blade from the base to assist hafting. Sharp barbs extend down and outwards from the base, with straight lateral blade edges converging towards a tip symmetrically placed above the center of the incurvate base. Thin relative to width or length. All characteristic of the Levanna type with the small...
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Small and irregular triangular point with a concave base that has been smoothly ground and down-turning rounded ears flanking the basal concavity. The basal sections of the blade are asymmetrical. Both develop perpendicularly to the base, as though intended to create a fairly long point. On one side the base of the blade is fairly well and regularly formed and has a slight degree of grinding on the flake edges to dull them. Above this straight, g...
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Fragment of a small Levanna point, split longitudinally along a flaw in the quartz, slightly to one side of its midline. Tip and one barb remain intact. Originally very short in length relative to width, suggesting either resharpening in use or (more likely) creative adaptation to flaws in the raw material that prevented the creation of a more symmetrical and longer triangular point. Base is concave and slightly angular at the innermost point. Qu...
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Dress form. partially covered in segments. metal hoops and interior exposed on bottom. "Hall-Bohhert Dress Form New York" "Princess size 1 - ?". adjustable screw on top of neck with peddle inside. Sits on four small wheels
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White netting with solid white canopy at top, ring to attach to desired hanging area. Donor indicated the item was from Amy Philips who was Hope Taylor's Grandmother.
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Wood reel for fishing and sailmaking with rope line wrapped around it. wishbone shaped on each end with 4 protruding arms.
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Frame or Bow saw with wooden handles and metal saw blade between. Rounded end on the longer wooden handle
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Wooden spike for splicing rope. Either a fid or marlinespike. Fid is rounded at one end with a drill hole through it.
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metal animal trap attached to a piece of wood by a metal chain.
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Cast iron giant pan. Chris and Lydia Ingrams' family used this for multiple generations down on the rocks at Sakonnet Point for cookouts. Dora rescued it when Chris Ingrams sold his house.
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Native American designed earrings with beads and porcupine quills. Made by Venus Reel's Daughter, Yolanda Smith. The area now known as Little Compton, RI is the traditional homelands of the Sakonnet Wampanoag people. Historic Sakonnet belongings in our collection and in private collections indicate that the Sakonnet people, and their antecedents who may have called themselves by another name, have lived and cared for these lands for at l...
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