The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-03-27
HOBBIES
BY Max Chambers
INDIAN RELICS

To many people springtime is
over the fields and through woods
watching nature at work It's more
fun IL you can get up a party and 1t
is more interesting If you start out
looking for something instance
arrow heads, pottery, beads and
tomahawks.
There is hardly town on the
peninsula more than five miles from
an old Indian village. Several good
places to find articles are down near
Onancock, Virginia; Oak Grove,
Delaware and on Kent Island, Md
Near Preston there are four creeks
named by the Nanticokes-Cabin,
Hunting, Hog and Fowling
hey were their favorite living and
aunting grounds. And to this dav
The cid trail may be seen on the East
side of Winchester Mill Pond oAe mile
east of Preston on Highway 21o. 1t
is said that this trail led from Talbot
County to the Indian River in Della
ware via Seaford-'The Ford on the
Way to Sea-" The oommnnity
headquarters of the Nanticokea is al
oak Orchard in Sussex County
Delaware. They have their annual
oow-wow on Thanksgiving Day.
One of the outstanding peninsula
indian Relic Hobby Riders is Con-
.ad Liden, sophomore at Federals-
ourg High School and Grand Prize
Winner at the 9th Annual Hobby
Fair last December. Senator Rad
life of Maryland attended the fair
and of Conrad's exhibit said, Il am
lstonished 1t Is wonderful collec-
ion" Conrad has a wonderful as
,ortment-darts, tomahawks, beads,
near points, skinning knives, NOR
.ars and pottery-perhap thou
sand pieces-all found near his
lome at Bethel Church. He has al
indian history.
Another remarkable collection is
owned by James Marks of Stevens
Vile. Kent Island is the Eastern
Shore artifact-collectors paradise.
James has more than 500 pieces,
he rarest being three paint smearers
md cosmetic bowls and the most
interesting, twelve-inch stone war
club.
Robert Landlords fine collection
If relics won first place for Junior
Boys in the Big Hobby Fair held at
Pocomoke City High School, March
10th.
Here are the names of few more
youngsters up and down the PENN
,ula who hunt Indian Relics: Rich
ard Clark, Easton; Norton Bennett,
Chestertown; Lee Walbert, Chester
own; Dawson Kenton, Easton; John
Gore, Vienna; Emerson Hurley, vi
emma; A Somers, Crisfield; Ernest
Lahore, Nanticoke. Other fine col
Iections are owned by Mr. Ralph
Beers at Bethel, Delaware, and At
.orney Leroy Smith at Berlin.
Director Frank A. Woodfield, of
he Maryland Academy of Sciences in
Baltimore, suggests that amateur
collectors on the peninsula should
lot attempt anything in the way of
excavations until they have gone
into the subject from a thorough and
scientific point of view" He says
the best time to make finds" is
after hard rain. Find few and
you will want more. Stewart Mac
Caulay in the Sunday Sun Magazine
says William B. Mayre is probably
Maryland's outstanding authority on
indian Lore.
Within the next month colony
Of Indians from various American
tribes will be established in a reser-
vation at Circus Park near Elkton
where Indian handicraft may be seen
in the making. 1t is said they will
visit schools on request.
Indian artifacts are always inter
ssting and one never knows when
one will stumble upon a rare speci-
men to add to a growing collection.
Books: Nanticoke Indian Com
munity of Delawre; Indian Craft and
ore-Salomons; Long Lance; Boys
Catlin; Bows and Arrows for Boys;
Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout;
Bureau of Ethnology-Washin
Swimmer Observation-Disclosures
Institute.
Next Week: Finding List of Hob
bies. Column Name Winner Next
Week.
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