SWATHED IN PEARLS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 November 1925, Page 4

SWATHED IN PEARLS.

A ROMANTIC’ .FIND. FOUR, FRF,HISTORIC WARiHOTiS. Swathed in strands of pearls, some of extiaoi tlmary size ■ auu peirecticm, cue remains ot lour bodies nave been discoveiea in -a mound near uamunuge, unio, during excavations py scientists. j'ne bodies, two ot wnicii where crowned with copper helmets, carved with intricate de.sighs, were surrounded by ornaments of copper, silver, and tortoise-shell. , Also found in the mound were tj.isks of the grizzly bear, tiie biggest ever unearthed in a North American mound, and several large pipes, one exquisitely carved with ail image of a standing wolt and another with .tun image of a bear.

Frelessor H. C. Shetroue, who was present when the discoveries were made, said the fact that the four bodies were found together in the same mound does not indicate that they died together, it being tint custom of the ancient tribes to place their dead in a temporary charnel house and then once . year to hold a feast of the deatl and place all the bodies at once in a mound with great, ceremony. The nose of one skeleton was made of copper. Scientists have never been able to agree how long ago the mound builders lived; whether they were an early type ot .American Indian, or a distinct and separate earlier race. They hope these , new discoveries’ in America’s “Valley of the Kings’’ will throw light on the .subject.