Record #:

13849

Author(s):

Rights, Douglas L.

Abstract:

Reported to be living along the Yadkin River, near Salisbury, in the 1670s, the Saura Native Americans comprised the Indians of Dan Valley. Saura artifacts have been located within Rockingham County and consist of fragments of clay pottery, deer antlers, stone ax, spurs of wild fowl, bone tools, broken clay tobacco pipes, and stone arrow points.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 20 Issue 43, Mar 1953, p12, il

Subject(s):

Indians of North America--North Carolina--Antiquities; Saura Indians--North Carolina