SWATHED IN PEARLS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 285, 5 November 1925, Page 6

SWATHED IN PEARLS.

A 11 OH ANTIC FIND. FOUR PREHISTORIC WARRIORS. Swathed in strands of pearl;, sonic of extraordinary size and perfection, the remains of four bodies have been discovered in a mound near Baitibridge, Ohio, during excavations by scientists. The bodies, two of which wore crowned with copper helmets, carved with intricate designs, were surrounded by ornaments of copper, silver and tortoise-shell. Also found in the mound were tusks of the grizzly bear, the biggest ever unearthed in a North American mound, and several large pipes, one exquisitely carved with an image of a standing wolf and another with an image of a hear. Professor 11. C. Shetrono, 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 the custom of the ancient tribes to place their dead in a temporary channel house and then once a year to Hold a feast of the dead 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 of American Indian, or a distinct and separate earlier race. They hope these now discoveries in America’s “Valley of the Kings” will throw light on the subject.