The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-04

IVORY, apes. and p~eacocks." There - /
no IVORY IN South America and the |
peacock comes from India. As 10
apes there are plenty OF monkeys in
me loWiands of this continent. but IS
10 the almus tree. / know il not.
Tne excavations of DIR. Rucht.in in
ciude many finds of implements Of
stone and also some If gold. copper
and bronze. The first belong To the
stone age. and the latter are said To
uate before the times Of the Incas. As
u the pottery. | saw much that
seemed 10 indicate an Egyptian origin.
Many OF the cups and bowls have The
shape OF a cat. They made me think
OF the famous seat of the
worship OF the cat in the laws OF tint
fharaohs. This ancient city was sit
uated IN the Lane OF Goshen, not far
from where Zagazig now stands. and
rlght on the route the Egyptians took
"lieh they came down into Egypt for
corn Bubastis had many cat god
ueSSes ana It's chief goddess was q cat
nedued oman 1t had a cat cemetery.
sltuated on the west side Of the town
rms was crammed with cat num-
mes many or which had been inca sed
IN c~at-Shaped cases of wood and
bronze. l photographed some of the
cat-boWls from Tiahuanacu. and their
heads are lifelike.
Dr. hi found skeletons of
llanas among these cat-pots. He
.hihkS the ancient citizens Of Tiahu-
kanacu may have worshiped liamas in
| Sonhecuon, with h jaguar, which
mas a mead like a cat. Some of the
heads are as big as nv two fists the
vases being covered with spots like
thoSe OF a leopard or jaQuar. Other
vases show the heads of the condor
the great vulture eagle of the high
Andes.
Among the implements are SPOONS
OF terra Gotta and of bone. There
are knives of bone, some of which
are sharp; and also arrow points of
opSiulan. 1here are also bone rings.
and bone needles of various kinds.
Ihere are stone pipes drilled out Of
a rock as hard as quartz. How the
people were able to drill the holes
without steel or other metal is I'M
known.
All of these find have come from
within ten feet of the surface of the
earth. The soil above where they
were found is sand, and DR.. Buchtein
says this indicates thai the city of
Ilahuanacu was for a long time GOV
cred With water, and that this was
the cause of the wonderful preserva-
ton Of the articles. Among the dis
coverles is a large number of skele-
ton OF m beings. The bones were
scattered about, and the jawbones
were often a yard away from the
skulls to which they belonged. While
IN the museum | saw thirty or forty
perfect skulls, which were practical
ly the same as within a few year.
, after the death of their owners, nov
more than 5000 years ago. Thos.
skulls are different from any nov
known. They are Of enormous size
and they ndica a race of giants
They slope back from the eyes al
most to the crown, reminding one O
h f1athead Indians of North Ameri
ca. The jaWbOneS are heavy. anC
, the teeth, after their rest of eighty
, centuries, are still almost perfect. l
, seemed strange to loo at the grin
ming molars and t. peer into the eye
years ago.
> DR.. Buchtein says that he foun,
!, the most Of the pottery neal the skele
tons, and that there were two pots be
side each skull of a mar or woman
and one pot only beside the skull 0
= a child.
{ The skulls of the women had plate
of gold upon their foreheads. Their
: are many Of the plates in the museum
They are of pure gold, but as thin a
f paper. Each bears the image OF
f man, showing that the weaker Sc,
worshiped the stronger 5000 year
| before the advent Of the militant SUI
fragette. The features of the imag
are beautifully marked; they look d
. though the gold lea had been pound
ed or pressed upon a die q 70
9 the purpose. They were probabl
4 fastened TO the skulls by strings.
a In talking with Mr.. Manuel Vicent
q Bolivian, who is now collecting tn
e exhibit this country will have at tn
} San Francisco exposition, | hav
S, learned that many of these ancier
Ie objects will be taken to the Unite
States and shown there. DR.. BOLIVIA
t says that he is in correspondence wit
IS the University of Yale as to its send
n ing a scientific expedition here to ir
vestigate the ancient civilization {
is TiahuanaCu and certain other arch
n Geological wonders of the BOLIVIA
IS plateau. DR.. Buchtein says that MAJ
Re other parts of Bolivia have evidence
e lof prehistoric races, and that the M
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