18th-century Indian trading camp
About this photograph
Photo by Emily Jack.
- Date created
- October 27, 2007
- Location
- Fort Dobbs, North Carolina
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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At a demonstration of eighteenth-century life on North Carolina’s western frontier, this replica of an Indian trading camp shows items that were considered valuable commodities. They included powder horns, tobacco, shirts, blankets, rum, mirrors, beaded belts, deer skins, and drinking vessels.
