The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-09
Life of indians Is Illustrated
Continued from Page One

iSh the various KINDS, since aart
stone had, SO to speak, a humor Z
it's own and it had to be humor-5
The objects in these Indian cases
tell the stories about themselves Her.
is an oval and tolerably fiat b0us.ar
water worn during long years iu
Crabtree creek, let us say, which th.
f1aker had given the first treatment
1t is to be an axe or a hoe. The axes
in real use ran in weight between
and pounds. but there are
some weighing as much as 80 pounds
used of course only III ceremonialS
| to which all the Indian tribes were
| invited. Here is an axe after the fake
| marks have been flecked out BY an
other artist and here an axe which
| has passed through the hands OF ina
grinder or polisher and it is inimita-
| bic bit of work. q high credit to the
red ed-skinned aborisine who gave il th.
masterful finishing touch. No Raj
| eign stone worker Of this day ana
generation could begin TO equal IT,
| with all his modern tools,
Leaf-shaped blades arc shown aAt
for these spear heads and knives ard
daggers were fashioned These We're
given the final touch with d piece OF
hard stone or OF deer's horn Black
flint, grey flint, mottled flint, rose COLI
ored flint points are view and iU
some cases the very stones from
which these We're taken. Transparent
quartz, or crystal, snowy quartz, au0
two score other stones are shown ar
made into points. war arrows with
deeply serrated OF notched edges me-
ing among them, SO made To cause
the worst sort OF wound.
Axes, large and small, hatchets
generally called tomahaWks: coltS.
which were used as axes also, hoes
, diggers. polishers, scalping-knives.
, skinning knives and various other
, implements are on view.
Then there are ceremonial stones.
all the way from the large tat soap
! stone, with q. perforation so il cculd
: be suspended at the chiefs house
= to the sun and moon stones and the
e banner stones and the butterfly
e stoves. The red men thought tho
q butterfly a messenger from the gods
and SO they made stones which imi
s tated that insect in shape. These ha4
= handles and they were borne in pro-
e cesSiOn.
e Of games the Indians had many.
q There are balls of stones they used "A
3 q game in which it was rolled Into
holes in the ground. Discordal stones
IS were pitched or rolled, and there Vas
A. a game in which hemispheres were
ie used some Of these in the collections
- being of black and brown bernatite
wonderful polish, while were -
n white quartz.
- The Indians northeast OF Raleigh
a raised tobacco and smoked il, too,
1v and they called it uppoWoc. So pipes
were IN great request and just IS the
2 enthusiastic smoker Of this day IS
- proud Of his meerSChaum the Indian
,o or the long ago was equally proud o'
.,o his pipe. All sorts Of pipes are shown
ts made Of soapstone or clay. There Ii
or a rough shape for g. pipe just as th'
ha quarryman got it out and gave II th'
- rude outline and there are pipe
IN which certainly wer the work o
great artists, one was drawn out o
the bed of Neuse river at the Falls o
a Neuse, Ia miles north Of Raleigh, il
No shad seine. It is beautifully shape
an and is ornaTnented with pleasing de
ar signs cut in. Another pip has II
oa design Of a frog. Among the pipe
,s OF clay are some which could be use
cir To-Day. These have stems Of reed 2
He WOOD. The soapstone pipe, referTe
he &c are in two cases all in cno pee
,st with their stems, and hence eXtreT mel
to difficult to make.
he Soapstone and clay pottery Il
be cooking for use as holder ar
zip shown. Clay objects show the India
he humor. One has the body Of an g
ith cessively fat man. with face ha
human and grotesque in the extreH
M Inere is a comic face, in stone, WoI
ere as a charm or amulet at the nee
h. A bird stone is one Of the kind ma
ep- Tled women Tin other words sQua"'
iCh wore on their heads in front over Il
vas forehead. Objects of metal were /.
an greatest treasures in all the world
III these peoples who knew on
1ef stone. The early explorers tell
len finding copper ornaments, includlI
her large sheets OF that metal beaten o.
oke among the North Carolina l. diaI
ned but none of these are in this cole
UT ton. There are rude silver O:'lamen
,ats Of Spanish made from mounds
oon Cherokee county, but these were civ
TO the chiefs by the Spanish eHplo
the ers who early in 1900 were in t
Ii h North Carolina mountain region ne
the the Tennessee and Georgia lines. loo
ow ing for diamonds, gold and silver, q