Indigenous
New England
"We're Still Here"
Online Exhibit:
"We're Still Here"
Online Exhibit
Contemporary Indigenous New England Artists
Linda Coombs
Linda Coombs is a member of the Aquinnah Wampanog tribe from Martha's Vineyard where she was born and raised. After earning a degree in 1971 in Music Education from University of Massachusetts at Lowell, she became an intern at the Boston Children's Museum. Linda works at Plimoth Plantation where she started in 1975, training interns in the Native American Studies Program (now the Wampanoag Indigenous Program). There she has learned the history, technology, and arts of her 17th century ancestors and has become accomplished in bead work and making traditional deerskin outfits, twined weaving, and woven bulrush and cattail mats.
She lives with her family in the Wampanoag community of Mashpee on Cape Cod and "loves gardens and working in and with the Earth, the smell of the salt air, the smell of the fresh water, and the feel of the wind and sun."
Linda Coombs contact info: 508-746-1622 x8385
E-mail Linda Coombs
c/o Plimoth Plantation, 137 Warren Ave., Plymouth, MA 02360
