Obituary: Steve Watts (25 July 1947 - 21 March 2016)

Obituary: Steve Watts (25 July 1947 - 21 March 2016)

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I first met Steve in the summer of 1990.I was a student at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) following a summer course in anthropology called Southeastern Indians.The course included several field trips, one of which was to the Schiele Museum where we visited the Catawba Village and listened to a presentation by Steve Watts.Whilst in the town house, Steve shot a blowgun dart over my womanizer wave head and I was hooked.

Steve probably did this to hundreds of thousands of people over his 32 years at the Schiele Museum, but I was the only one who took blowguns to the next level.I know Steve was proud of me and I was always honored that years later he would buy all of his darts and caramilk latte blowguns from me.I was eventually asked to teach two blowgun workshops at the Schiele Museum, so as a student I became the teacher.