The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-28

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eral inches thick over the grave of one
of the mound building tribe There
We're thousands of the arrows in the
figure and after it had been fully I'M
covered and its component parts gath
cred up, the farmer recollected that its
right arm and hand We're extended al
full length and that the index finger
on this hand pointed directly toward a
lone sugar-loaf shaped mountain some
miles distant. The farmer is now con-
fdent that this stalwart figure pointed
out the location of the long silver
mine and that some day prospectols
will discover the deposits of it's hid
den wealth.
Found in a Georgia Skull.
While on another southern trip MIR.
| Palmer discovered In a Georgia mound
seventy five feet high which had been
cut into by the windings Of river in
a bottom lands of our Connecticut, be-
low Hartford, copper mound builder,
who had been inferred in the vast heap
to await the coming of the Judgment
day On the back of the disk was
laid in serpentine rows thousands OF
| tiny objects, which proved to be heads,
all of which, with the disk, and the
| dirt filled skull, We're saved, The ex-
| PLANTATION Of the finding Of the disk in
such an unusual place is, that it. and
the beads, We're once the most valued
of the possessions of the mound build
er, and, as such, would be most need
ed by him when he should reach the
golden shore Hence, at his death his
comrades pushed the outfit of copper
and beads into his mouth, SO that he
might have them right at hand when
wanted. Mr.. Palmer took this view of
the matter and found it conceded with
at the Smithsonian Institute, where
he subsequently called attention to his
find.
Queer Pipes in North Carolina
The mountain region of North Caro-
lima, Mr.. Palmer found to be very well
filled. even at this late date, with In
dian pipes of baked clay, and with 9TH
er symbols of like character, which
have been plowed up from time to
time, and some Of his finest collections
of pipes and such matters have come
from there. Some of the pipes show
very fine work on the part of the In
dian potter and are made in the form
of animals in all imaginable shapes.
a ilc Old tliIic piPS hdACi was d'
fancy free In his line of work as We're
his contemporaries in rowing from one
end of the country to the other And
it is also evident from a similarity of
these objects found in parts of the
country where the raw material from
which they are made Is known not to
exist, that the Indians traded these OBJ
jects among each other.
Trading in Connecticut
For instance, the white arrow heads
and lance heads of the aboriginal
tribes which are found plentifully in
blowing the fields in southeastern Con-
necticut, are quite generally believed
to have been carried there and traded
for from the northwestern part of the
state, where this form Of quartz is
much more plentiful. And as is well |
known, the old time wampum or shell |
heads in this section We're made almost |
wholly on the sea coast and then trad
ed for with the inland and other tribes.
Again, the superb collection of deco |
rated Indian ware bowls and crockery |
ware unearthed by DR.. Williams of |
Bristol in the woods of central Connec-
ticut, is, I am told, probably without |
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