Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-06-10

Them In the Ncighborhood.
From the Springfield Republican.
The Lincoln brothers live in neat little
house on the west side Of the Quaboag
river, about half a mile from the center Of
West Brookneld. Mass The rarlor has
been transformed into an Indian museum.
Tomahawks war clubs and scalping Knives
are everywhere. A little table fairly groans
under the weigh, OF stone implements Of all
kinds, and he walls are hung with pretty
nearly everything used by the red man in
his principal trade OF killing. and his sub
sidiary occupation OF cutiyating. In fact.
II is a very. complete exhibit of the imple-
ments Of all kinds used by savages N both
the paleolithic aud neolthic ages Of the
hunting and hshiug stage. The collection
proper is arranged In "a black walnut cab
met ntted with shelves and having glass
doors, The relics are classified, and each
one is numbered and given a full descrip-
served by MIR. Lincoln When he was asked
how many articles he and his brother had
collected, payid said that he had long ago
neishborhood of 1000 articles, and With a
few exceptions all Of them were found by
Vicinity Of West BrookiieIj
y large aud interesting book might he
impossible In this article 20 give more than
"A general idea OF some of the more con-
speuous articles. corn hoe and an In
dian hammer were the first specimens
shown. The hoe was roughly fashioned
from coarse grained stone, and grooves In
its side showed where the handle had been
attached. y spheroidal piece Of smooth and
very hard stone was pronounced hammer,
ana number OF indentations on one of the
Halter sides Were pointed out as evidence
that 1T had been good for that purpose. y
number Of elongated pieces Of stone, vary
ing IN length from two inches to one loot;
were pronounced needles, which were used
by the Indians In the weaving OF nets from
grass and strong twigS There were four
teen pcstles. of all sizes. and from two
% fpp'
been used In grinding corn. and In the
dooryard Of the house Mr.. Lincoln showed
a tine large mortar. whose followed top
indicated for what purpose Il had been
used Three pipes, two made OF soap
stone and the other of some harder mate
rial. were interesting reminders OF the use
Of tobacco among the red men. And then
MIR; Lincoln displayed a very Nillainous
would give it to his visitor If he could pro-
nounce the name OF the lake at Chester
where the relic was found. This is the
name.
Chaugogagosnonchau
mung.'
of Mr.. Lincoln. There are fifteen toma,
hawks, all made OF stone ana all found
near West Brookfel, and a very iine
Chpped into the proper, form, with won
derful accuracy; This head Mr., Lincoln
Boston \ Albany road. \ piece Of stone
sharpencd on the curved edge was calmly
the collector displayed eighteen notches
cut on the upper edge. which he said there
the number. OF times il had discharged is
function. \ round piece, of stone, oddly
charm but the FIVE notches on this are
supposed by ethnoiosis[S to stand Tor ,tne
number number Of pappooses when its wearer mad
y fun set of Indian jcwelry Mr.. Lincoln
G2asdgEs S NeTy Nqu1Ss }nq f51n ne mar nas oS m
Brooktield, and consists of a small amulet,
upon which Is roughly carved q how and
arrow and chain, and two earrings, which
are fashioned with considerable skill. The
carving is particularly interesting as the
consequently illustrates one OF the en-
bryotiC stages of the art of writing. Sew
m " i0pPft RpnWn snFSW % by "he b@an WSr' be o
the camp Of Shattoooquis the chief from
whom the settlers bought the Quahoag
left the valley they had begun TO emerge
from the stone age. y piece of stone almost
tennis bali, Mr.. Lincoln said was used by
!he inGinps IN pl3y.nS Same which was
9h shnny Nh3T bTt WHEN "f T3f n6w s6mewh9t na, at
changed and rejoices under the more aris-
tc2""'ic sppP55iilaatio9 Hf iBBalE2., ,asn,oned
from hard rock and evidently had been
other implements. \ battle AK, shaped
somewhat like an ordinary sledge. and
we!shinE seven pounds Mr.; Lincoln was
West Brookdsld There were three med.
icine or drinking cups made of stone, am
about half hushel of fragments Of pot
terry, to say nothing of several recepta-
skulls. which smiled cheerfuIly upon the
spectators and which, from their formal
uon, had evidently belonged to persons OF
no very great Intellectual attachments; a
string of wamPum-peage-smal pieces OF
,hl,, shell strung tightly toEether and making
holloW!ng, ont the logs and transforming
gl1sf ftHlt of NTr