Record #:

15349

Author(s):

Parris, John A., Jr.

Abstract:

Seventy-eight year old Sampson Welch was remarkably skilled at using a blowgun. The Native American, living on western North Carolina's Cherokee reservation, could shoot a feathered dart from a ten-foot blowgun and knock over a tin can at thirty paces. His son Epps and grandson June carried on the tradition using the ancient weapon.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 5 Issue 42, Mar 1938, p1, 25, il

Subject(s):

Indians of North America--Games