The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-13

fearful that harm might COME iuhi
their find, did not remove any of the
mummy coverings, and carefully |
brought them and all that they found
in the tomb across the country TO |
Yuma Here the wrappings were re-
moved by skiliful hands and amid eager
watching by an assemblage of local
scientists.
When the coverings We're taken OFT II
was found that the body was that of
little girl about years old. There can
be no doubt she was or a noble 1amliy,
and that her costly burial instead Oh
cremation was made for some extraor-
binary reason. Wrappings that filled
five bushel baskets We're unwound from
the remains. AS the bands were re-
moved, baked peanuts and mesquite
beans rolled out. Both beans and pea
nuts were in as good a state of preserv-
alton as ii they had been placed there
a few months before. A child's play
thing-a curious bone affair three lncnes
long and one inch wide, with holes
through it and with pieces of animal
hide dangling from twas found De-
tween the arms of the body. The color
of the dry, parched skin was similar TO
that of an Egyptian mummy. The little
shiyeleu hands We're clinched about bits
of mesquite wood, and thick mass OF
raven back hair, much finer than that
of any modern Indian covered the m
| fantile head. The legs We're drawn IN
| the position of a child creeping, and the
| forearms were raised SO that the hanas
were near the shoulders with the
palms toward the front. similar 10 all
Peruvian mummies. The finger nalis
| were perfect and the teeth intact. The
| nose, ears and eyes were gone ana the
| skin was broken on the right Knee anu
| one of the wrists. exposing bones, SIM
| ews and dried flesh
M
/ taken out of the La Canyada canyon. 90
| miles northeast from Phoenix. TWO OF
] them subsidized into dust after contact
! with the air. but the other two were
taken to the Harvard University muse
UNI i'm fairly good condition. They were
/ four chiefs among cliff dweliers. The
! large amount of wrappings placed In
the tomb showed that. One arm had
! seven huge bracelets made from shells
| that are found nowadays only in Lab
rador, and that discovery has always
been a poser for chronological students
seeking to learn whence the Aztecs or
Toltecs came. In the upper region or
the ella valley there are hundreds OF
tombs yet unopened, but they are sep
uIchers of the cliff jewellers. These
| death chambers were cut through gen
erations of toll with the very crudest
| tools in granite walls, 400 and 800 feet
above the bed of a canyon. How the
workmen went about their tremendous
job is always fruitful source OF spec
ulation among exploring Scientists.
Some of these tombs are so high that
they cannot be reached by ladders, and
are protected from above by the over
hanging rocks, so that they cannot be
reached even by means of ropes HOW
! the prehistoric undertakers reached
these sepulchres is a problem which viii
be solved perhaps some day when the
pulverized dust inside the charnel
houses rises up on resurrection and eS-
plains.
, resort to mummifying their dead. but
preferred the more esthetic mode OF
, burning the remains and depesting the
ashes in the tomb, together with some
household utensils or perhaps a geW-
gaw or fetch beloved by the wearer IN
life. These people had their passions
: and their love affairs very much tbs
same as the other members OF the
) Adam family. and in no way was theli
love and esteem shown for each Other
more forcibly than in the crude embel-
| lishments, representing years OF labor
D that were made upon the tombs of thu
departed.
E The Papagoes of Northern Arizona
. and Western New Mexico in buryint
build a rooted corral of rock some tNt
or three feet high. The body is thel
placed inside in a sitting or reclining
posture, together with saddles, bride
: and similar objects belonging to the de
: ceased. Then the funeral rites OF IN
!, tribe are INDUCED in, lasting sometime
: fer a week. BY this time the dead In
: dian is thought to be well on his wa
to the happy hunting grounds, and a
: save the widow Danish melancholy /
: their native drink. twsin. But IN
widows are always widows SO long a
they live. Unlike our advanced stage
n of civilization, they do not menace tn
= happiness of the dusky debulante'
They cannot marry again They can
not even iirt. They are supporte
e from the common fund and are til
common drudge of all. Husband po
soning is as consequence a lost arr.
In the mountain districts sepulchre
are found built of rough. but CAREFUL
n hewn rock and placed layer upon laye
stair step fashion Each step contain
a row of deceased warriors. while tt
female population were given XII
. yard near by under loose piles of col
- bic rock. These burial places. while NJ
r so ancient, are yet beyond the memol
It and traditions of the Indians of II
n present day. AS they are few and o.
"a cur only in isolated regions and on TO
+ titled points. they may possibly be Il
4 remains of wandering band of sa'
he ages from the North or East.
L The Smithsonian institution seien
~ lists say that the most remarkable pr
Is maybe in all the country-is a blat
L barren butte on the lower ella rive
ie some 50 miles west of Yuma. 1t is n
le wonderful from any architecture
a standpoint. There are no marvelo'
: hieroglyphics nor immense pieces of e
e cheering work which battle the min
le of modern scientists. Tt is but d plai
10 bald rocky point, uglier and plain
Q for its sharp contrast against the bl
y sky. But it is wonderful because up
as lis aerial heights, which look down oy
~ the green vegas and rolling potrers
II are the white and bleaching bones Of
X y band of people who fought the last fig
= for existence.
No one knows when this battle W
= given. nor who were the besiegers
= the besieged. There are evidences Of
= = mighty conflict, and the little me
: which tops the mountain bears witne