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Levern Hamlin scrapbook

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  • # oiKilirftcc INDIAN VILLAGE C^QC' You'll find nothing in all the land like Oconaluftee Indian Village. It's a full-size replica of an 18th century Cherokee community brought to life so you can see how the red man lived before the white man tamed the American wilderness. Indian guides in buckskins and feathers will lead you past mud huts and primitive cabins and rustic arbors in which Indians are making dug-out canoes with fire and ax, stringing beads, spinning ropes of clay into pots, weaving baskets and finger-weaving cloth. You will be led backward into the past over ground where nomadic Indians camped 5,000 years ago. You will see how an ancient people lived and worked without the wheel, without cattle or horses, without alphabets or even the iron tools of prehistoric Europe. You will see Indian artisans feathering arrows and blowgun darts, fashioning blow- guns, bow and arrows, chipping flint into arrowheads, making fish hooks and needles of bone, carving wooden spoons and combs, pounding corn into meal with mortar and pestle. Inside the huts and cabins and the 7-sided Cherokee council house you will see the furnishings and trappings used 200 years ago—deer and bear skins, buffalo robes and feathered capes, the gourd rattles and finger drums of the medicine ritual, and the hand-carved masks worn in the age- old Eagle dance. All of this is something you will long remember, for Oconaluftee Indian Village is more than just a historical reproduction. It's an ancient way of life resurrected in authentic detail—a truly "living museum." Oconaluftee Indian Village is open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from mid-May through mid-October. Admission prices are: adults, $1.20; children (6-14) 40c. ^..-.■■W
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