The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-15
A GIANT RACE.
The Indian Mound Cbickasn wba Human
skeletons Eight Rnd Ten FeeU In Height
Relics of Former Age.

Ine lnOlHn NlOunu
skeletons Eight Rnd Ten Feet In Height
Relics of IL Former Age.
From the Memphis appeal.
Two miles west of Barfeld Point, in Ar
kansas county, Ark, on the east bank of the
lovely stream called Pemiscott river, stands
an Indian mound, some twenty-five feet high
and about an acre in area at the top This
mound is called Chickasawba, and from it
the high and beautiful country surrounding
it, some twelve square miles in area, derives
its name-Chickasawb The mound de-
rives its name from Chickasawba, chief of
the Shawnee tribe, who lived, died, and was
buried there. This chief was one of the last
of the race of hunters who lived in that beau
tiful region, and who once peopled it quite
thickly-for Indians we mean. From 1920 to
1881 he and his hunters assembled annually
at Barfeld Point, then as now the principal
shipping place of the surrounding country,
and battered off their furs, peltries, buffalo
robes and honey to the white settlers and the
trading boats on the river; receiving in return
powder, shot, lead, blankets, money, etc.
Aunt Kitty Williams, who now resides there,
relates that Chickasawba would frequently
bring in for sale at one time as much as
twenty gallons of pure honey in deerskins
bags slung to his back. He was always firm
friend of the whites, q man of gigantic
stature and herculean strength In his nine
teenth year he took young wife and by her
had two children. In 1881 she died, aud the
old chief did not long survive her, dying in
the same year, aged ninety-three or ninety
four years. Mr.. w. Fitzgerald, who moved
in that country in 1922, says that up to the
time of his death, Chickasawba supplied
him with game. He was buried at
the foot of the mound on which he
had lived by his tribe, most of whom de-
parted for the Nation Immediately after per-
forming his funeral rites. A few, however,
fingered there up to a late date, the last of
them, we believe, being John East, who in
1860, at the breaking out of the war, Joined
Captain Charley Bowen's company of the
late "so-called, and fought the war through,
as gallant ''reb" as any of them, coming
back home in 1865 to return to the arts of
peace. Chickasawba was perfectly honest,
and the best informed chief of his tribe.
His contemporary chiefs were Long Knife,
Sunshine, Corn Meal, Moonshine mike
Brennan), etc. Mike Brennan and Quill
buried him. He left a son named John
Pemescott. A number of years ago, in
making an excavation into or near the foot of
Chickasawbas mound, portion of
GIGANTIC HUMAN SKELETON
was found. The men who were digging, be-
coming interested unearthed the entire skele-
ton, and from measurements given us by re-
| liable parties the frame of the man to whom
| IL belonged could not nave been less than
eight or nine feet in height. Under the
skull, which easily slipped over the head of
our informant (who, we will here state, is one
| of our best citizens), was found peculiarly
shaped earthen jar, resembling nothing in
the way of Indian pottery which had before
been seen by them. 1t was exactly the shape
of the round-bodied, long-necked caraffes
or water decapters, specimen of which
may be seen on Gaston's dining-table.
The material of which the vase was made
was a peculiar kind of clay, and the work.
manship was very fine The belly or body of
it was ornamented with figures or hierogly-
phics consisting of correct deliueation of hu-
man hands, parallel to each other, open, pans
outward, and running up and down the vase,
the wrists to the base and the fagers towards
the neck. On either side of the hands were
tibie orthigh bones, also correctly, ,delineated,
running around the vase There were other
things found with the skeleton, but this is
all that our informant remembers. Since
that time, wherever an excavation has been
made in the Chickasawbia country in the
neighbolhood of the mound,
SIMILAR SKELETONS
have been found, and under the skull OF
every one were found similar funeral vases
almost exactly like the one described. There
are now in this city several of the vases anG
portions of the huge skeletons. One of the
editors of the appeal yesterday meas ured /
thigh bone, which is fully three feet long
The thigh and shin bones, together witt
bones of the foot, stood up in proper posi-
tion in a physicians Office in this city, mea
sure FIVE feet in height, and show the body Il
which the leg belonged to have been from