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American Indians and Chapel Hill

The university's collection of American Indian artifacts and documents, its interest in Indian folk culture, and the emergence of American Indian studies on campus.

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  1. Fluted Clovis point, 10,000 B.C., one of the oldest North Carolina artifacts held by the Research Laboratories of Archaeology
  2. Joffre Coe (1916-2000)
  3. Graduate students Mary Beth Fitts and Mark Plane working with Catawba Indian children washing soil from a trash-filled pit at an eighteenth-century Catawba Indian town in South Carolina, 2007
  4. Cherokee woman and a young girl making clay pots, ca. 1930-1945
  5. Potsherds (left) and projectile points (right) from the Love House site, dating from 500 B.C. to 500 A.D.
  6. Theodor de Bry, Native American Man and Woman Eating, 1590
  7. Mico Chlucco the Long Warrior, 1791
  8. Cover of exhibit catalog, Unearthing the Maya: Highlights of the Stuart Collection
  9. Scene from The Scuffletown Outlaws: A Tragedy of the Lowrie Gang, by William Norment Cox, 1924
  10. Kermit Hunter (1910-2001) (left) and the Cherokee Eagle dance from Unto These Hills (right).
  11. The Croatan Normal School, Pembroke, North Carolina, 1916
  12. Henry Owl
  13. Cherokee Indian Pottery Maker, Cherokee, North Carolina, ca. 1940-1960
  14. Michael Green and Theda Perdue
  15. Malinda Maynor Lowery
  16. Linda Oxendine, BA, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1967
  17. Students at a Carolina Indian Circle workshop on campus
  18. Interns and volunteers from the Native Health Initiative in Cherokee, North Carolina
  19. Clara Sue Kidwell, first director of the American Indian Center

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