By Michael Futch | Staff writer – FayObserver.com – Photo: Melissa Sue Gerrits | The Fayetteville Observer.
Photo: Artist Ned Barton discusses his art work at his home.
Fayetteville, North Carolina – Barton crafts homemade primitive art such as Native American women and men’s regalia, clay pottery, moccasins, Indian drums, nifty gourd pocketbooks, pine needle baskets and his favorite craft work of all — dried-out bald cypress tree knees decorated by hand with largely Native American imagery burned into the tapered wood’s peeled ridges.