ARTIFACT COMES HOME TO THE FRISCO NATIVE AMERICAN MUSEUM
Over the past 30 years, the Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center has received amazing and wonderful donations, ranging from rare and beautiful art work to handmade crafts for the museum gift shop. But one of the most interesting items recently made its way to the museum from a couple living in Onancock, Virginia.
In early summer, Robert Doughty contacted museum staff to say he would like to donate an artifact that had been given to him when he lived on Ocracoke Island many years ago. Doughty explained that the artifact was found around 1925 by a native of Ocracoke, Gregg Bragg, when he was a teenager clamming in waters along the shore. Bragg’s clam rake hit something considerably larger than a clam, and when he examined it, fortunately he recognized that it was more than just a rock. Made of what appears to be lava, the rock has both top and bottom clearly scooped out making it perfect for grinding corn or other grains. The Bragg family used the grindstone as a door stop for the next fifty years until Bragg met Doughty in the seventies and eventually gave it to him.
Doughty speculated how the grindstone may have been used by Native Americans on the outer banks centuries ago, noting that he considered it a very lucky find. Indeed. Staff at the Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center would agree. The grindstone is currently on display at the museum in an exhibit on early tools.
The museum is located on Hatteras Island and open Tuesday through Sunday
from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM; Mondays by appointment only.
For more information visit www.nativeamericanmuseum.org
or call 252-995-4440.
For more articles read the online edition of the Albemarle Tradewinds Magazine Click Here
Over the past 30 years, the Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center has received amazing and wonderful donations, ranging from rare and beautiful art work to handmade crafts for the museum gift shop. But one of the most interesting items recently made its way to the museum from a couple living in Onancock, Virginia.
In early summer, Robert Doughty contacted museum staff to say he would like to donate an artifact that had been given to him when he lived on Ocracoke Island many years ago. Doughty explained that the artifact was found around 1925 by a native of Ocracoke, Gregg Bragg, when he was a teenager clamming in waters along the shore. Bragg’s clam rake hit something considerably larger than a clam, and when he examined it, fortunately he recognized that it was more than just a rock. Made of what appears to be lava, the rock has both top and bottom clearly scooped out making it perfect for grinding corn or other grains. The Bragg family used the grindstone as a door stop for the next fifty years until Bragg met Doughty in the seventies and eventually gave it to him.
Doughty speculated how the grindstone may have been used by Native Americans on the outer banks centuries ago, noting that he considered it a very lucky find. Indeed. Staff at the Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center would agree. The grindstone is currently on display at the museum in an exhibit on early tools.
The museum is located on Hatteras Island and open Tuesday through Sunday
from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM; Mondays by appointment only.
For more information visit www.nativeamericanmuseum.org
or call 252-995-4440.
For more articles read the online edition of the Albemarle Tradewinds Magazine Click Here
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