St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-14
AMONG THE RUINS.

GILL IluuaeS,dI6 IlUW III CtOChIlOiiu, WHcl0
Prof. RetziuS, one of the most eminent
cranioogists in the world, is making an
exhaustive study of them. The result
is awaited with anxiety by those who
are Insisting that, despite the almost in
disputable proofs that the cliff jewellers
were Indians, they were whites. They,
too, have three strong points in their
favor: the hair upon all tho mum
mics is soft, fine, and generally
from brown to almost blonde in
color: the Indians in their most
ancient legands say nothing of these
prehistoric people, and when questioned
show entire ignorance, though L am told
that that peculiar tribe, the Moquis,
say the cliff jewellers were their anceS-
tors, but L doubt it; most Indians are
terrified at the strange abodes and can
not be induced to enter them, or even
to go in their vicinity after dark; and,
lastly, the skulls are shaped more like
white mems.
The RTu7nTnies.
The best preserved of these mummies
was in what on that account was named
"She House." 1t is a CHASTITY thing, this
woman, who may have been young and
which death found her centuries ago.
Perhaps the object of idolatrous love
and ad miration, she is now a
thing of curiosity and aversion.
People Of many climes and tongues
will gaze upon her, and in white city
whose wonders would stagger her. Yet
she could tell the mystery Of her people.
who lived =. so long ago that moderns
must eveA name them-could tell it in a
breath if only she had a breath to eX
pend. Perhaps by the next great expo
sition ONE evoluted Edison will have
arisen who can shock dead tongues and
ears, tn ose monographs of genera
ton. so that they will repeat sounds
which will make many things clear.
for the Bible saith, "There is
revealed" This mummy was found
with child beside her, sealed up by a
wall in an unused corner Of the house.
The body was five feet ten inches
tall, with rather small hands and feet,
and fine, soft brown hair. 1t was
doubled up, and the swollen tongue
protrudes from the mouth. Evidently
long az as her agony was, it was great
while it lasted. This body was
IN Good Preservation
when discovered, but outer air is play
ing havoc with it. All the bodies are
covered with microscopic insect which
produces an intolerable itching on the
hands and face. She House has the
best-preseryed estufa discovered. 1t
will be produced in stone fac
simile, dimensions and all, fire.
place, tiny closets, and the grave
in which this mumm6 was found,
in battle Rock" cliff dweller exhibit.
The She House group is built in ledge
of rock which forms an arch 300 feet
long and $50 feet high. The only water
at hand O. is 1000 feet below in the
canon bed. Since no signs Of wings
have been noted on the mummes, l sug-
gest that some anatomiSt examine the
stomachS to see if they are built on the
ca mel plan. In the cliff and down the
prin cipal house is huge crack where
some day will chip off a great slice of
rock. The house is now fairly topping,
awaiting the ''Ready!' OF one OF Mother
Earth's frequent housekeeping days.
A dead cliff dweller seems to have
been a dead dog. The corpse was left
as it died, and rolled In feather robe,
probably the one worn Ill life, the
foundation of yucca fiber. the top Of
turkey feetherS-they domesticated tur-
keys in their houses. Next the body
the worst obtaInable was good enough;
and lastly. this bundle of mortality was
done up in covering Of reeds. Some
times fourth underWrapping of cotton
was used. Then the bundle was thrust
Into an Unused Corner,
the soil slightly scooped out and lightly
spread over it, and 1t was wa He'd up.
Sometimes in the room the person had
occupied in life it was placed, the stone
door was cemented, and the body was
left till the resurrection, though ex-
plorers have anticipated its advent.
SO sealed from damp and changes of
temperature, the bodies did not decay {.
simply dried into the mummies you
may gaze upon at the worlds fai r.
| There are many of them, all as large as
ourselves, thus exploding the prepos-
ferrous theories of some library arch8ol-
gists that the cliff jewellers were dwarfs.
AS if dwarfs could either have built
or reached the large, solid, almost
inaccessible houses which perch
like eagles nests among the
crags! A head of one mummy has
sidewhlskers, quite English, you know.
One is that of a small child with a
really piteous expression. When the
relics were being put into position, a