Historic Signifigance of objects made by Indians:
Come experience a taste of history in this exhibit of Native Carolinan culture. The Indian people once living in this location posessed an exciting and colorful past and now we offer a chance for you to see this for yourself. View this private collection of artifacts recovered from the area fields and river shores of the White Oak River and Swansboro area and Santee, South Carolina. The main focus of the exhibit is to show the function in the lives of these Indians. By viewing this display you can see the bits of evidence left by them, and from these meager clues you can gain knowledge of the past of these vanished people. You can see in the arrowheads, spear points, hide scrappers, flaked stone knives, from the fragment shreds of cooking pots, and bowls made of clay evidence of a way of life.
On display in this exhibit are artifacts of the past ten thousand years of these early hunters, hunter gatherers, and farmers; flaked stone knives and scrapers to cut up meat for food and prepare skins for clothing, projectile points (arrowheads and spear points) for killing their prey, such as mammoths, camels, horses, bison, deer, small animals, and birds, pieces of Indian pipe, and a game disk. Also on display is the partial skeleton of a male Indian excavated in Santee, SC. This skeleton dates back to around four hundred years. The display of fragment shards of cooking pots and bowls not only shows how the decoration they used on the vessials varied, but also shows their skill and attention to detail. |
