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Powder horns

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Photo by Emily Jack.

Date created
October 27, 2007
Location
Fort Dobbs, North Carolina
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This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use

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Photograph of eighteenth-century style powder horns hanging from a rack.

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At a replica of an eighteenth-century Indian trading camp on North Carolina’s western frontier, three powder horns hang from a post. Powder horns were hollowed-out cow or buffalo horns, used to hold gun powder for loading muskets and other firearms.