| Summary: | (2:06) The Haggards discuss the different types of arrowheads and the laws regarding their harvest. This interview was conducted as part of a joint project of the Music Preservation Society and the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library. This project focus was oral history interviews with area residents who had lived or worked on the Tennessee River.Florence- Lauderdale Public Library Digital Archive
Interview with Wayne Haggard and Shannon Haggard
November 19, 2007
Waterloo, Alabama
Conducted by Patti Hannah and Rhonda Haygood
Clip 9 of 11
Wayne Haggard: If you know anything about an arrowhead, ever arrowhead has got a name. I mean, there’s ten thousand kinds.
Shannon Haggard: They’re named after the area they’re around, or named after a creek or something that’s close by where that particular type, point type is.
WH: Mulberry Creek you know over in Colbert County, they’ve , they’ve got an arrowhead named after it. Pickwick is real common around here, I don’t know why. [ laughter] Uh, it’s a real common arrowhead.
SH: These here were used to kill wooly mammoths with, saber- tooth tigers.
Patti Hannah: Yeah.
SH: They’re real old.
WH: Yeah, this is the old rock, they’re ten- thousand years old
SH: Ten- or twenty- thousand.
PH: Yeah, so that’s why you can’t dig anymore, right? [ laughter]
WH: Well, you can still, you can still pick them up.
PH: You can pick them up but you can’t dig?
SH: Also, so many people have got into it now it’s just really hard to find anything.
Rhonda Haygood: Are they doing it to sell them?
WH: Yeah.
SH: Yes ma’am.
WH: Uh, that’s just some of the benefits of diving for shells you know. PH: Right.
WH: If you see a rock, you pick it up.
WH: Ever one of these come out of the river. And uh these probably are more field finds because the Horse Creek is back this away from the river.
SH: Un huh.
WH: And uh, you find them in the field, you know, camp sites where the Indians used to camp years and years ago but .
RH: And you’re not allowed to dig on land either, correct?
SH: No you can’t dig anywhere.
WH: Unh- uh.
RH: Okay, that’s not just a river?
WH: I don’t, if I had an Indian mound right down there, I don’t know whether it would be legal for me to dig in it or not. I’m not sure, ever one of these come out of the river.
PH: Oh, my goodness!
SH: Some of those come off of the banks of the river. You know, when they drop the river and you walk along the banks.
WH: Yeah, the river washes them. I mean it, it shows, it bares them and
SH: These, these would be darker in color, the river stained ones will versus a field find.
WH: Those two right there I think petrified wood ain’t they?
SH: Yeah, I think.
WH: That one is, for sure, but I’m not sure about that one. They come in all shapes, sizes and colors.
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