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Hobby Nets Valuable Collection Of Indian Artifacts
By DAVE LORTIB
News.Review Staff Writtr
.hat started out to be a simple
Hobby of collecting and polishing
rocks has been expanded and modi
fied Until toHav Hneohum nBAa
F.arl Henbest 'has a collection of j
Indian artifacts valued at overi
$j5.UOU.
Henbest, a greying mag nearing
his 60th birthday, has been hunt
ing and collecting articles of North
America's Indian tribes for over
12 years.
At the present time, the Rose
burg man has over 63,000 individ
ual pieces in his collection. It in
cludes over 22,000 arrow and spear
heads. According to Henbest, it
takes him over 16 hours of con-
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tinuous talking to describe his
complete collection.
Despite the seeming- complete
ness of his collection, Henbest still
goes artifact hunting nearly every
weekend. One of his favorite, and
most productive, spots is the North
Umpqua River right after a high
water period. j
Tim, Distinct Spent
Henbest has spent "several years
and thousands of miles" compiling
his collection. While he personally
has found most of the items in the
collection while touring the United
States on various occasions, he has
purchased some pieces. He also
trades pieces with other Indian
lore collectors in the country.
The bronze-tanned hunter has
held 78 exhibitions of his collec
tion. He has also appeared over
radio five times and been on one
television program. Last year at
the Oregon Centennial Exhibition
in Portland, Henbest won six blue
ribbons for various entries in In
dian artifacts.
By far the most interesting of
his 22.000 arrow heads is a small
case containing about half a dozen
heads. Valued at S350, the arrow
heads are from the Yuma Indians
who lived in Arizona. The most re
cent of them is 30,000 years old,
with the oldest dating back over
65,000 years.
The massive collection also con
tains other unusual and unique
items. Among these are a collec
tion of Hohokum Indian pottery
from Arizona which dates back be
fore the birth of Christ.
Aztecs Represented
Another interesting item Is a
group of earrings and idols from
the ancient Aztec civilization of
Mexico. Still another unique item
is a ceremonial bowl made from
the very rare Asian soapstone. Ac
cording to Henbest, there are only
two such bowls in America, his
and one in the Smithsonian Insti
tute in Washington, D.C.
Henbest has an intense enthu
siasm for his hobby. A good deal
of this enthusiasm seems to al
most automatically brush off on
the people to whom he talks.
Some of his most enthusiastic
fans come from a group of local
Camp Fire Girls. Henbest has been
working with the group now for
six years. While much of his work
with the girls is simply advisory,
he does have a group that goes out
artifact hunting with him nearly
every weekend. Henbest says the.
girls have developed into "real ex
pert hunters."
"For a while," Henbest said, "I
was working with Cub Scouts, but
all they wanted to do was climb
around on rocks, so 1 decided the
girls would be better."
Many of the items to be found
in Henbest's collection would be
familiar to any moviegoer who de
lights in cowboy and Indian epics.
Warbonnets, scalping hacuets, bone
chest armour, moccasins, baskets,
pottery, and numerous other fairly
common items are included in the
collection.
Apparel Interesting
Two items of wearing apparel
of particular interest are women's
ceremonial jackets. The first, from
the Cree tribe which lived along
the U.S.-Canadian border in Sas
katchewan, is 125 years old. It is
decorated with brightly colored
glass beads ana is trimmed with
small, high pitched metal bells.
A Mohawk jacket, said to be of
about 1800 origin is a very color
ful thing. The jacket, basically
white, is decorated in intricate
beadwork with a replica of t h e
American flag, the British Union
Jack and two French Crosses, thus
graphically describing the period
when the Mohawks were under the
domination of the three countries.
Many of Henbest's best finds are
along the North Umpqua River.
One item he found on such an
excursion is a small, bluish color
ed stone knife, less than an inch
long. According to Henbest, the
tiny knife was used by the Indians
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NEW YORK (API Gov. Nelson
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"The primary necessity for any
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Another interesting item in the
Henbest collection includes five
moccasin forms made out of stone.
Varying in size, the stone forms
are the Indians' equivalent to the
old iron shoe forms, once a part
of every "white mans" household.
The Indians would take these
forms and stretch soft animal hide
around the in, thus forming the
moccasin.
One Form Monstrous
One of the moccasin forms,
which is just a little terrifying,
is about three times the size of the
normal foot. According to Henbest
the giant who wore these huge
moccasins also carried a hatchet
of which the head alone weighed
over 65 pounds.
At the present time the artifact
collector is preparing an article on
his adventures of 12 years. Once
completed he plans to submit it
for publication.
With more than three thick vol
umes of notes on his collection and
adventures, Henbest admits he is
having trouble boiling his data
down to article length.
The only problem the Roseburg
man has had with his collection
is finding a place large enough to
keep it. At first he kept it in a
room in his house, but because of
his constant additions to the col
lection he was forced to build on
a room just to store the Indian
materials.
Now even that is filled to over
flowing and Henbest is in some
what of a dilemma. He doesn't
know whether to buy a bigger
house, or add on to the addition
he has already built. One tiling
that he is sure of though. He is
not going to give up his "hobby."
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