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Show Wooden India Signs John L Morrison, editor, and a col lector of wooden Indians, says: "Wooden Indians are not Indigenous to American soil. As early us the reign of Jumes I the wooden Indian was a familiar sight In England. Of the early wooden Indians In America, an odd, cupldllke Pocahontas that once stood guard on Hancock street, ttoston. dates from 1730. The pioneer authenticated appearance of a cigar store show figure teas In 1770, when Christopher Demuth opened s tobacco shop In l-ancnster. Pa. This figure was not an Indian, but a delicate, minuet-type gentleman extending a snuffbox Invitingly." |