The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-09-08

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Exceed the Exterior in Its Cizarr,
Details = ArcheoIogist Has Thor
oughIy Explored the Channel Islands
and Has Dug Up Vast Quantitie.
of Exhibits.
Two hundred feet above the Pa
chic ocean and overlooking Avalon
on Catalina island, Ralph Glidden-o1
the staff of the Museum of the Amer
lean Indian, George G. Heye Founda
ton, in New York-will erect a unique
museum of his own that should prove
one of the wonders of the modern
world. Mr.. Glidden is an archeolog.
ical authority on the famous Channel
islands, in whose ancient history there
is steadily increasing interest.
| Instead of a tower to crown it, the
| Glidden museum will be capped by a
gigantic skull, 16 feet wide, IL feet
high and "a feet through. For his
model, Mr.. Glidden is taking the skull
of an Indian chief which he unearthed
recently on San Nicolas island. just
out beyond Catalina. The enlarge
| ment will follow it's dimensions pro-
portionately.
The museum will be an imposing
structure of solid masonry 80 by 40
feet. The skull featuring the exterior
will serve as an index to the contents
of the building. The eye-sockets will
be five feet in diameter, equipped
with powerful electric lamps the
irr1)t Of
at sea.
Will Show UP the Teeth.
The nose-bridge will also be fitted
up with additional illumination, as
well as the lower jaw The effect of
the latter will be designed so as to
show up the teeth, which were one of
the notable features OF the aborigi-
neeS. The whole thing will be such
that no one ever seeing it can forget
Mr. Glidden's museum. If men ever
grew large enough for heads of such
a size as this skull they would be
from 80 to 70 feet tall Although the
original Channel islanders were large
men, not many exceeded one tenth of
that size.
The novelty of Mr.. Glidden's mu-
scum will not stop with the outside
If anything, the interior is to be even
more bizarre. He intends taking for
his pattern a mOrtuary chapel recent
ly unearthed on the Island of Malta
in the Mediterranean, halfway be-
Paul was shipwrecked in 60 A. D.
This burial hall has for it's mural
decorations more than 1000 skulls,
with a frieze of collar-bones.
Will Be Open to the Public.
While Mr.. Glidden will not attempt |
to duplicate this chapel he intends
to arrange many of the human bones |
that he has. collected III various geo. |
metric designs. When completed the |
museum on Santa Catalina will be |
mike anything else anywhere in this
1t will be open to the gen.
sral public, and the builder plans to
give talks on the relics so that the
people who visit it will learn some
hing besides having their curiosity
altered to.
IL C huScuIu VI Lie AMERICAN III
liam, George G.. Heye Foundation,
vas opened In 1916 in New York, at
he corner of One Hundred and Fifty
fifth street and Broadway, adjoining
he Hispanic Society Of America, the
american Geographic society and the
lmerfcan Numismatfc society. It's
urpose was to study the Indians Of
forth, Central and South America, to
ather evidence OF their civilizations
nd modes Of life and to disseminate
concerning them.
Mr.. Heye, director, commissioned
[r. Glidden to explore the Channel
lands and collect relics of vanished
,dians Although the islands have
lready been dug over repeatedly by
expeditions for archeologi-
II researches from this country and }
broad, the results attained by Mr.. ,
hidden have been little short Of re- :
arkable, in the judgment Of scien- !
fic men. He has dug up more than 9
thousand skeletons Nine months !
ork on Catalina yielded 316. In five
onths he obtained 343 on San Miguel
I'd 316 from San Nicolas in four
onths. AS a result of these ex-
orations the Heye museum has the
lest exhibit of Channel island In i
an lore existent, not. surpassed even .
that of the Smithsonian fnStitu-
IN in Washington.