... seemingly introduced these interesting tools to the Catawba in the eighteenth century. The ability to make such moldsdied out in the 1930s and was successfully revived by Earl Robbins in the ... 1999–2002). In the area of religion, the “old way” survivesonly in the belief in minor woodland deities called the yehasuri, or the wild Indians (Blumer Collection, Edinburg, Virginia, [BC] 1985). In the realm ... and is the oldest in the UnitedStates. Then in 1888 a South Carolina writer and would-be ethnologist,MacDonald Furman, took an interest in the Catawba and wrote aboutthem in the local press...