Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1870-09-17
CHICKASAWBA.
Remains Ofa Race Of Giants Found In
Arkansas Human Skeletons I'm
eRrthed Eight Feet In Hight.
From the MemphlsArpcoI.l

lIk0 1l0tI1 tODiDdChH anu NAAeANo
that have from time to time appeared
in the press of Europe and America,
that we premise hem with the decla-
ration that they IRE strictly true, and
that we have not exaggerated what we
have seen, one iota. With this much
as a preface, we will proceed with our
story. fs.
CHICKASAWBA. .n
Twelve miles west Of Barfleld Point,
in Mississippi county, Ark, on the east
bank of the lovely stream called Penn
iscott bayou, a atributary Of the st. Fran
els 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
1t, some twelve square miles in a ca,
derives its name-C Chickasawba. The
mound derives its name from Chicka-
sawba, chiefofthe 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 beautiful re-
gion, and who once peopled 1t quite
thickly-fOr Indians we mean. From
1890 to 1881 he and his hunters assem-
bled annually at Bariield point, then as
now the principal shipping place ofthe
surrounding country, and bartered OIL
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 twen-
ty gallons of pure honey in deerskin
bags sung to his back. He was always
firm friend of the whites, a man OF
gigantic stature and herculian strength.
In his ninetieth year he took young
wife and by her had two children. In
1881 she died, and the old chief did not
long survive her, dying the same year,
aged ninety-three or four years. Mr.
w. Fitzgerald, who moved to that
country in 1922, said that up to the
time Of his death, Chickasawba sup.
piled him with game. He was buried
at the foot of the mound on which he
had lived, by his tribe, most Of whom
departed for the Nation Immediately
after performing his funeral rites. A
| few, However, fingered there up to a
| late date, the last of them, we believe,
being John East, who, in 1880, at the
breaking out of the war, joined Captain
Charley Bowen's company of the late
" so-called,n and fought the war
through as gallant "reb" as any OF
them, coming back home in '65 to re-
turn to the arts of peace. Chickasaw-
ba was perfectly honest, and the best
informed chief of his tribe. His CO.
temporary chiefs were Big Knife, Sun
shine, Corn Meal and MoOnshine,
Mike Brennan and Quill buried him.
He left son named John Pemescott
A number of years ago, in making an
excavation into or near the foot ol
Chickasawba's mound, a portion OF
! GIGANTIC HUMAN SKELETON
was found. The men who were dig
ging, becoming interested, uneartheC
the entire skeleton, and from measure
ments given us by reliable parties, th'
frame Of the man to whom 1t belonged
could not have been less than eight O
nine feet in hight. Under the skull
which easily slipped over the head 0
our Informant who, we will here stat
is one of our est.citizens) was found ;
peculiarly shaped earthen jar, resemb
ling nothing in the way OF Indian pot
terry which had before been seen b.
them. 1t was exactly the shape Of tn
round-b0died, long-necked Garages Q
, water decanters, a specimen of whicl
NAV be seen on Gaston's dining tables
The material of which this vase wa
made was peculiar kind of clay, an,
: the workmanship was very fine. Tn
| belly or body Oft was ornamented Wit
figures or hieroglyphics, consisting OF.
: correct delineatiOn offour human hand
2 parallel to each other, open, palm
4 outward, and running up and down tn
/ vase, the wrist toward the base, an
S the fingers toward the neck. On eithe
t side of these hands were ti6iCC or thig
, bones, also correctly delineated, run
g ming around the vase. There were otl
t er things foundw the skeleton, bu
/; this is all that our informant remem
: bers. Since that time wherever an eS
4 cayation has been made in the Chick
: asawbia country in the neighborhoo
: of the mound aNftH aH
n SIMILAR SKELETONS
h have been found, and under the sku
Il of every one were found similar fune
d al vases, almost exactly like. the on
: described. There are now in this cit
S several of the vases. The thigh an
= shin bones, together with the bones
|, the foot, stood up in q proper position
: measure five feet in hight, and sho
Il the body to which the leg belonged
Is have been from nine to ten feetin high
9 At Beauforts Landing, near Bartielt
n In digging deep ditch, skeleton va
Z dug Ip, the leg of which measured y
9 tween five and six feet in length, an
: other bones in proportion. 1t Is not
n matter of doubt that these are
), HUMAN REMAINS, =
J. but of a long extinct race-a race whic
! flolirished, lived and died many cent
y ries ago. in those days told of in ii
. Scripture. C And there were gian
9 in those days.") 1t was Sir Hal
4 Sloan, we believe, who first put fort
4 the theory that the gigantic BON
e found IN various parts Of the old worl
h were not human remains. This,
6 Nj according with, the populars idet
e and superstitions about giants, was col
n sidered the rankest sort Of heresy
s the time; but Cuvier, the great anat'
q mist proved them, in almost every n
q stance, to be portions Of the fossilsa'
3 .mamnloths, negatherinnas, inastodnn
!, etc. The bones that he examined, 10y
il ever, were those ofsuch apocTyphal ske
! etons as that found in Sicily In the ca
d lv part of the 18th century, three hia
l. Ired feet Iona, OF "0BncaTt,n found I
4 VaIelice in l505, ditrtg feet high, of 4
h ,lsi cheyalier Rlnsonn found at R0uenl
IS i509., Within the past century the
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