Twitchell-Rowland Museum presents Two Collections of Native American Artifacts

The exhibit “Hiding Under our Feet: Artifacts from Oxford’s Native American Past” continues through November 2 at the Twitchell-Rowland Homestead Museum at 60 Towner Lane in Oxford. The museum is open from 2-4 p.m. on the first and third Sundays of each month or by appointment. Admission is free.

The arrowheads, knives, axe and spears in the display were collected in the 1930’s by Nelson Cable and Atwater Treat, two local farmers who turned up the stone tools with their shovels and plows and saved them as historical curiosities. An identification guide is provided and visitors are encouraged to speculate how the implements were used. The large number of artifacts and the fact that they were found in 2 separate areas of town, Chestnut Tree Hill and Great Hill, offers proof that a sizeable number of men, women and children from the Paugasuck (Paugusset) and Pootatuck tribes inhabited what is now Oxford before white men pushed north from the shores of Long Island Sound in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries.

In addition, on Sunday, November 9, the public is invited to hear Lucianne Lavin, author of “Connecticut’s Indigenous People; What Archeology, History and Oral Traditions Tell Us about Their Communities and Cultures” speak about the Native American heritage of our State at 2:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Oxford Historical Society, the program will be held in St. Peter’s Church Hall at 421 Oxford Road.

For further information, call 203 888-0230.