The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-04-15

separated themselves, from anothe,
Tribe. : =
The Indian stories set out 50 attrar.
lively il the North Carolina Hall
OF History by pictures and relics OF
the aDoriglnes, are. certainly inform.
ing, and collection easily takes rank
as one OF the most complete south
LOT Washington.
PAINT POT.
Mention has been made in a for
mer article of some of the hundreds
of objects which illustrate so many
of the varied phases of Indian life.
but there are yet others which merit
explanation. A paint pot" is in the
collection. This is "fulgurite," made
by lightning striking and fusing the
sand. In this one red oxide of iron
has formed. The Romans of olden
days called.these fulgurites "thun-
derbolts.' and thought their greatest
god had hurled them from the sky.
The Indians mixed the oxide, red or
yellow. with grease and painted their
faces and bodies with it. They also
used it for other decorative pur-
poses.
THEIR STONE WORK
The Indians did not fear to work
the most refractory stones, in order
to make implements; flint, for, ex.
ample, or hematite. that is iron ore.
The drills they used in doing admir-
able boring are shown. as are also
objects they bored, including pipes,
gorgets (worn at the neck as orna-
ments) and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
CLAY POTTERY.
! Their clay pottery was of a high
class in many cases. There is in the
collection one of the finest jars in
the United States. These jars or pots
were made in a mould of plated
cane and made smooth on the in
side. When dried they showed on
the outside the cross pattern of the
cane. Many persons have an idea
that the Indians stamped them while
soft with corncobs. but this is an
error. The weak point about much
of their clay pottery is that it does
hold water, as they did not know
how to glaze it. The Catawbas were
and are better pottery-makers than
the Cherokees. They darken their
pottery by exposing it to the smoke
of chestnut bark
INDIAN MONEY.
The Indian money, called various
ly wampum, peak or ronoak, was
made of sea-shells or of rather soft
stone, and had wide currency, prac-
tically all the tribes in America &C
cepting it as currency. To make it
particularly of shells, required a /
good deal Of care and time. Both
sorts are in this collection.
KEEN FISHERMEN.
.Sinkers for fishing lines are among
the objects on view. These are OF
stone, as are also weights used in
holding down the seins which the
red men used to drag in the creeks.
The Indians were adept fishermen
and nearly always located their vii
lagos near streams. At several points
near Raleigh they had towns" as
they were called, though in general
they were a shifting people and for
sanitary reasons, for one thing. sell
dom stayed long in a particular
place.
The Indians were superstitlous,
but not a whit more so than many
people in this year of grace 1915
They had "conjurers," and so have
we in this stGte at this good hour.
Their conjurers were sham ms or
medicine men, and among them
were jugglers and near-magicians
who worked all sorts of schemes to
deceive their clients and in fact all
their tribe. These sharnans are
among the Cherokees to this day.
THE WHITE PICTURES
On the wall of the western Hall OF
History are the famous White Pic
lures painted in 1887 by Governor
John White, of the Roanoke Col
ony.' in what was then called 'Vir-
einia," now North Carolina. These
nictures are invaluable They are
copies of the ones in the British Mu-
scum in London and are gifts to the
state from Col. Benehan Cameron.
The United States has in the Ma
tional Museum anothe, set, and
these three are all. Of course many
engravings of them have been made
and in the eastern Hall of History is
a rare volume containing the first of
these engrayings, made in 1890. this
volume being loan by Bishop 10:
seph Blount Cheshire. The story told
is by Hariot and it was first pub