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Evening star., 1924-02-24
Tourists Attracted
BY Archaeological
Enterprise onSoiI Of
United St0tes--COI-
lection, When Com
pleted, Will Be the
Finest This CityHas
Euer Had, and Tro
Other Exhibits Are
to Be Provided for
the Public.

which Dr.. Fewkes values at $4,000,
as a relic that is a rung in the ladder
in establishing the identity Of the
tribes which once inhabited Florida
and perhaps worked from there
northward to found other families OF
redmen.
The banner stone is shaped IN the
form of a two-bladed Ak and is made
of metamorphic rock that is foreign
to Florida It may have come from
tho West Indies originally The
stone is pierced by tapering hole
like the rifiing in a gun. The drilling
Of this hole tapers thousandths OF an
inch, it is SO finely done, and indicates
some unknown Indian process that
has been lost to science.
Modern lapidarians cannot under
stand how the prehistoric redskins
could perform such indescribably
delicate work without the employ
ment of special steel tools.
The banner stone was used with
another base stone for grinding the
meal which the redskins ate. II Is
four inches thick and sixteen inches
in diameter. History shows that the
shell men who used such milling
stones were among the earliest resi-
dents of the New World.
Spanish records and American his
tory disclose that more than 400 years
ago fernando De So Sofa and his
party entered Tampa bay. which they
named "Espiritu Sanctu," Bay OF the
Holy Spirit They landed on an
island where were the highest she'll
mounds in that neighborhood, as had
Pamphilo Narvaez before them. Un-
questionably their landing place was
weedons Island, for it Is tho Only
place in all of Tampa bay that CORE
spends to their descriptions. It was
then known as the Indian village Of
Hirrihigua, ruled over by Chief
Ucita, according to the chroniclers
who recorded those early Spanish
voyages.
A tragedy not unlike that Of the
Pocahontas and John Smith episode
was enacted. When Narvaez and his
expeditioners finally deserted the
island they left behind them Juan
Ortiz, an eighteen-year-old Spanish
boy who had been captured by the
! hostile Indians. The records Of De
Sotos subsequent visit to the island
explain how Princess Uleleh, the
daughter of King Ucita, by her en-
treaties saved the Spanish Lad from
death. Until the coming Of De Soto
the boy remained prisoner. Then he
gained his freedom, but died before he
could marry the swarthy-skinned
maiden who had saved him from the
torture stake.
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Indian relics have been found in re-
mote sections of the country, far
from the sight of the ordinary lay
man.
Weedons Island is only half
hours motor boat trip from st.
Petersburg. A fairly good automo-
bile road also leads by circuitous
route to the novel excavations.
DR.. Stirling has been engaged in
his digging discoveries now for two
months. He says that 400 to 500
tourists visit the shell mounds daily,
while on Sunday the crowd of visitors
ranges from 1000 to 1900. !.
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A S the tourists went to the sides OF
the roped off, excavations, I
watched and listened.
"Those skulls look like cocoanuts
to me-" remarked one visitor. "Betcha
they planted 'em there just to fool US
tourists" I"
'Mebbe so,', replied his companion,
"but they look like petrified grape
fruit to me. Those pots and jugs
there beat anything I ever saw be-
fore. don't know where they could
get the like of them even If they are
fakes"
|. Just to convince these skeptical
men, the scientist who delivers. the
lectures about the educational value
of the exhibit handed up several OF
the skulls, jawbones and pottery
pieces to the tourists who questioned
their authenticity. Seeing and feel
ing are believing when 1t comes to
a matter Of handling such skeletal
souvenirs. Even the keenest knife
edge will not more, than scratch the
tough surface OF these bones, which
once were Important parts Of Indians
Evening star., 1924-02-24

the distance between Tampa and
ST. Petersburg SO miles, or 50 per
cent. The bridge will cost S3.00o,000,
point for the passage of shipping.
1t has rendered possible the develop
ment of vast tracts of real estate
which previously had been relatively
inaccessible.
Weedons Island was purchased
about a score of years ago by DR..
Leslie Weldon, northern physician
who migrated to Florida to regain
his health. During his hunting, fish
ing and exploring trips around his
curious estate DR.. Weldon found sur
face evidence Of Indian relics. He
tried to interest Uncle Sam in the de-
velopment of the tropical jungleland
as national park, to be explored and
exploited as was Mesa Verde National
Park in Colorado. The Department
of the Interior, through its Office of
national parks. although interested in
the prof ect, had to pigeonhole it
temporarily because of lack of funds.
Meanwhile the Candy Bridge enter
don sold his island to a prominent
development company for s225,000.
To make sure that Washington
scientists would find something worth
while when they finally came to ex-
plore the Weedon Island shell
mounds, some clever persons
planted" skillfully in the largest
mound the most extensive collection
of ancient Indian pottery and relics
that they could assemble. Then after
strenuous efforts they finally secured
the scientific aid of your Uncle
Samuel, and DIR. Fewkes was assigned
to visit the locality and make a
reconnaissant survey of its redskin-
relic possibilities. =
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|DR. J. WALTER FEWKES came,
1 saw, but was not conquered by
the surreptitious burials Of Indian
treasure made by white men in the
year 1923. The learned scientist, who
knows more about ethnology than
any other living American, made a
careful examination of Weedons
. Island and then pointed to where In
dian relics would be found by exca-
walton, If there were any such on that
region Of shell mounds and sand.
"Dr. Fewkes has completely over
looked the place where we planted
that Indian plunder. He says to dig
at the other end of tho island" said
the practical jokers.
To carry out the hoax-it was a
very sorry backfire joke, they thought
men were hired and initiated exca-
vational activities. Sick of the whole
affair, they did not stay around to
/, see what the shovels would unearth.
BY a queer Quirk Of fate. Weldon
Islands, shell mounds really were
storehouses Of Indian relics.
Following the ethical laws of eth
biological science. DR.. Fewkes, with
infallible accuracy. readily spotted
the : place where the real Indian
burials were concealed. Even to this
day he does not know Of the plant
which was made to attract his atten-
tion. When DR.. Fewkes reads this
story he will learn for the first time
Of the relics that were buried so that
he might find them.
t0NE Of the finds made at Weedons
~ Island since science took charge
. Of the explorations Is banner stone
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SpeciMens ftke 1Ndiaw pottery af1d
SkuitS c1aiMed HoM The Shelf AhoutLds s.

who carried tomahawks and gather
ed their food with bows and arrows.
In one type of the Indian burials
the body was always laid on its left
side facing the west and the setting
sun. The knees were drawn up un-
der the chin, while the left hand was
placed near the forehead as though
in salute to Old Sol as he sank below
the horizon. A precious piece of pot
terry was placed directly above the
head of each dead Indian. A hole
was pierced in each piece Of pottery
so that the good spirit which it con-
tanned could keep company with the
spirit of the departed redskin.
The custom of these Indians of
burying valuable pottery with their
dead was somewhat similar to that
of tho Chinese, who even go SO far
as to place food regularly on the
grave of the deceased after burial, so
that his spirit may not suffer starva-
ton
DR.. Stirling said that one of these
prehistoric tribes, which is charac-
terized by a very large and heavy
lower jawbone-the largest ever
found auong American redmen-fol-
lowed the custom of bodily exposure
before secondary burial. The bodies
were placed on scaffolding on mortu-
ary temples until the flesh was dis
sipated. Then the bones were buried.
Charred remnants Of the bones
which have been found may indicate
cannibalistic traits among some of
these tribesmen, although DR.. Stir
ling's belief is that none of the Amer
isan Indians were cannibals. He says
that these bones may have been burn
ed in certain tribal ceremonies before
they were finally buried.
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THE first type of Indians, as re-
covered from one Of the definite
strata in Florida's King Tut" mine
are small-boned, pointed-chin race
of average stature. The other tribes
men have heavy bones, square chins
and large, protruding jaws. The lat
ter are Of more recent domination on
weedons Island and show greater
culture and skill in pottery manu-
facture and decoration.
At the lower level of the Oldest in
terments the Washington sciensists
have found rough, undecorated pot
terry. The latter burials, in strata
closer to the surface; have been pro-
ductive of large stores of the finest
specimens Of Indian pottery ever un-
earthed in the United States. Red
yellow. and black colors predominate
Many of the decorations show that
they were stamped or stenciled, into
place. In some cases even human
faces are modelled on the pottery in
bas-relief. Science reports that the
culture Of these Indians was remark
ably high as American Indians 60
The scientific value Of the pottery
and relics thus far uncovered is ap.
proximately $500.ooo.
Candy bridge, the longest automo-
bile bridge in the world. rs under con-
struction within sight Of Weedons
Island. and, strange to tell, the real
estate Development which has latter
ly had its inception consequent on the
bridging of Tampa bay. is largely
responsible for the discovery Of the
extraordinary Indian relics.
Candy bridge is six miles in length
and will, be ready for use by midsum.
mer. It will provide a 24-foot auto.
mobile psssagewsy and. Wfll ahoSte1
Evening star., 1924-02-24

yH1LE Carter is buSlly en-
M gagged in his excavation en-
" terprise at the tomb of
King Tut-ankh-Amen in
Egypt, Washington scientists of the
Smithsonian Institution and the Ma
tional Museum are plying picks.
shovels, trowcls and brushes just as
successfully and industriously down
in the tropical jungle and she'll
mound country of western Florida
At Weedon's Island, which fronts on
Tampa Bay, excavations are now in
progress under the direction of DR..
J. Walter Fewkes, chief ethnologist
of the Smithsonian Institution, and
Dr. W. NJ. Stirling of the National
Museum.
1t is not often that Washington
writer's are able to follow the
vagaries of chronological and archeo-
logical science far afield to their re-
mote excavations, where studies are
made of the bones and pottery of pre-
historic Indians, inferred nobody
knows exactly when. In this case
however, the opportunity arose and
was accepted. The purpose of this
article is to show how modern science
plays Sherlock Holmes in ferreting
out the secrets of aborigines who
lived ten to fifteen centuries before
the first radio message was broadcast
through the ether.
chronological science is striving to
find the connecting link between the
Indians Of South America and the
redskins of Uncle Sans palatial es-
tate. It also seeks to determine def
mite data about the Indians that in
habited Florida previous to the ap-
pearance of the Seminoles, Osceola,
Johnny Bowlegs and other leaders OF
these renegade Creeks. Reference Ii
braries, Spanish histories and the
memories of the oldest settlers are of
no avail to the scientists who journey
from Washington to the salt sea
sidelines of Tampa Bay, where Jose
Gasparilla, the notorious pirate, once
reigned supreme. There is only one
way in which they can find answers
to the thousand and one questions
about the primitive redmen of that
territory. 1t is by digging in the
burial grounds of the aborigines, bit
by bit and piece by piece unearthing
relics and patching them together
into a shovel-won history.
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AvA thousands of pieces of pottery
of every size shape and pattern
imaginable have already rewarded
the persistent digging activities of
DR.. Stirling and his scientific assist
ants. These are representatives Of
three different tribes and periods.
The oldest bones and pottery are
those of prehistoric redskins who in
habited Florida hundreds of years be-
fore Columbus first sailed from Spain.
The Indians that were last buried in
the shell mounds are members of the
Evening star., 1924-02-24
Monticello to Be Occupied
ByChOSenGuests OfPeOple

years, while jefferson was in public
Office.
Capt. Bacon, for many years the
business manager and overseer of
Jefferson's estate, says of it:
Monticello is quite high noun
tain in the shape of q sugar-loaf.
a winding road led UP to the man.
sion. On the very top of the noun
tain the forest trees were cut down
and ten acres were cleared and
levelled off. The house -. is upon
the highest point. I knew every
room in that house. Under the
house and the terraces that sur
rounded it were his cisterns, icehouse,
cellar, kitchen and rooms for all
sorts of purposes. His servants
rooms were on one side. They were
very comfortable, warm in the win
ter and cool in the summer. Then
there were rooms for vegetables.
fruit, cider, wood and every other
purpose.
There were no negro and other
outhouses around the mansion, as
you generally see on plantations. The
grounds around the house were most
beautifully ornamented with flowers
and shrubbery. There were walks
and borders and flowers that have
never seen or heard of anywhere
else, Some Of them were in bloom
from carly in the spring until Iate
in the winter. Back of the house
was q beautiful lawn of two or
three acres. where his grandchildren
used to play a great deal.
His garden was on the side Of the
mountain. I had it built mostly
while he was President. It took a
great deal of labor. We had to blow
out the rock for the walls for the
different terraces and then make the
soil. have some Of the instructions
that Mr.. Jefferson sent me from
Washington now. It was fine gar.
den. There were vegetables of all
kinds, grapes, figs and the greatest
variety of fruit.
'I think there were 800 acres in
closed in the tract about the house
Mr.. Jefferson would never allow q
tree to be cut of from this. There
were roads and paths winding al
around and over it, where the family
could ride and walk with pleasure
How often I have seen him walking
over these grounds and his grand.
children following after him q,
happy as they could be"
Evening star., 1924-02-24

A PLAN 10 make Monticello, the
~ home of Thomas Jefferson,
~ memorial that will stimulate
American achievement in the
fields of natural science, education
and government, and a force for the
perpetuation of American ideals, has
been worked out by the Thomas JEFF
ferson Memorial Foundation, of which
Edward F.. AIbee, president of the
Keith's Theater Company, is national
chairman.
Each year che three American cfti-
zens who are judged to have rem
dered the greatest service in natural
science, education and government
will be selected as guests Of the ma
ton" Each will be entitled to oc-
cupy the famous colonial home,
which jefferson himself designed, for
a period of three months.
The selection of guests" is to be
made in the following manner: Each
state in the Union will be represented
by three Jefferson delegates, ap-
proved by its governor. Each indi-
vidual who has contributed to the
jefferson fund, or group of con-
tributors acting as one, may nomi-
nate one representative for each
$1,000 contributed. These representa-
tives will cooperate with the di-
rectors of the Jefferson Foundation,
and each of these three groups will
appoint five of it's members, who will
form the Monticello board of re-
gents.
The board Of regents will select the
sguests Of the nation" They also are
authorized to arrange with the Uni
versity of Virginia to cooperate with
the guests in their research and in
presentation of the ideals Of Ameri-
canism. If the guests SO choose, they
have the privilege of having merely
a nominal residence at Monticello
but the foundation hopes for their
occupancy of it, as the home is in
order and equipped for their enter
tainment.
Monticello, a mountain $50 feet high
and three miles from Charlottesville,
Va, came to the Jeffersons by grant
in 1876, and remained in their posses
sion until after the death Of Thomas
Jefferson, July 4, 1896. The absence
Of architects in Virginia in those
days resulted in Jefferson's becoming
his own architect. Begun in 1863
Monticello was not completed until
1901. for work on the house was
often halted for months, and even
Evening star., 1924-02-24
Artificial Leg 800 B. 6.
THE Oldest artificial leg in existenc

THE oldest artificial leg in existence
L is that in the museum Of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Eng
land. 1t was found in q tomb at
Capua, and is, OF course, Of Roman
origin.
This artificial member accurately
represents the form Of the human leg.
It is made with pieces of thin bronze.
fast.ned by bronze nails to a wooden
core. Two iron bars, having holes at
their free ends, are attached to the
upper extremity of the bronze;
quadilateral piece of iron found near
the position of the foot is thought to
have given strength to it There is
no trace Of the foot, and the wooden
core had nearly crumbled away. The
skeleton had it's waist surrounded by
belt of sheet bronze edged with
small rivets, probably used to fasten
a leather lining. Three painted vases
lay at the feet Of the skeleton. The
vases belong to a rather advanced
period in the decline Of art. about
800 B. G.
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q. JMalter Fewkes. Sk4ef etkno1eBistoE
vlsiMa The excavaGoNA rose afch.

be lost art Of lost tribe. The
colors have a range as wide as the
hues of the rainbow. The shapes
and extraordinary as the theorems of
geometry.
The durability Of the handmade
articles is outstanding. Neither the
ravages Of time nor the attacks Of
the elements have damaged the
buried articles, with the exception
Of those that have been broken in
excavation and discovery.
DR.. Stirling, as he stood on the
edge of the most recent excavation,
which bisects the burial place Of the
extinct aborigines, stated that the ex-
ploration had already been productive
of some Of the finest specimens of
Indian pottery ever rescued from sub
terranean tombs in America The
collection, which DR.. Stirling is care
fully guarding and daily adding to
in his tent laboratory on the shores
Of Tampa bay, will be the finest ever
displayed in Washington when it
finally arrives in the Capital city
The articles are so numerous that DR..
Stirling is selecting the very best
for display in the National Museum.
The other recoveries will be divided
into two remarkable exhibits. One
of these will be presented to the st.
Petersburg Historical Society. which
viii exhibit the curiosities. to hun
dreds Of thousands OF tourists. The
other will be displayed permanently
at Stetson University, at Deland, Fla
Never before in the history Of eth
biological discoveries in the United
States has there been the opportuni-
ty afforded in the Tampa bay lati-
tude for the American public to visit
and watch the, interesting work. For
the most part all previous mines OF
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Pr Sff1ixtg Wit ser % fsnd i, tes vcE;sing skiing
wdlan pottery ever discovered III this country

Caloosa tribe and. possibly offshoots
of the. Cartb Indians of the West In
dies-tribesmen of cannibalistic ten
denotes.
DR.. Stirling told the writer that he
expected to uncover more than 1000
skeletons before he completed his in
vestigations. The evidence is that this
search and research will divulge the
long-sought scientific information
which will definitely link together
the aborigines of North and South
America.
Following a winding motor road Of
shell and sand, much of which had
been reclaimed from Tampa Bay,
plunging through tropical jungles re-
plete in wild palm trees and dense
a long causeway, the writer. finally
came to Weedon's Island-a sand and
shell mound peninsula three miles
long and one and one-half miles wide
On the largest mound Of the island
DR.. Stirling and his aides were work
ing, shoveling through crosscut Of
sandy strata, using small hand
trowels' and diminutive brushes to
uncover the bones and pottery when
ever such treasure appeared to re-
ward their work.
Picture if you can the most tropical
and exotic scene you have ever read
about, add an equatorial wilderness
of oak, pine and palm trees, draped
fantastically with Spanish moss, the
sunlight flickering through here and
there-ankle-deep sand thick as
snow; three tents pitched close to the
excavated trenches and a quartet of
scientists dressed in boots and khaki,
seeking. for the solutions to prehis-
toric riddles in the shifting sands.
These men of science who. perhaps.
in Washington, look quite different
when they are far afield on the trail
of buried Indian relics. Roughly
dressed, they look moro like gold
prospectors or frontiersmen than cul-
tured disciples Of one Of our most
| complicated sciences.
They camp close to the excavations
| to protect them against untoward
, trespass and to be proximate to the
work that they love best Of all. They
get their meals on boat anchored at
| a pier which joins the island with
! seagoing ships.
The multiple pleasures Of St.
Petersburg-one of Florida's most
famous winter resorts-a scant six
| miles away, do not attract them. To
their extraordinary business Of win
ming Indian history from F1orida's
| shell mounds they accord the same
zest and zeal that the $4,000 tourists
in the neighboring city devote to golf.
tarpon fishing. rogue, lawn bowling.
archery. horseshoe :, pitching. chess.
checkers, cribbage and the dozens
of other amusements which delight
the vacation hours of the winter
dodgers" ,-
/ So r. X " \ p:
DR. FEwKES believes that more
II" than 5000 Indians In the period
perhaps from 500 to 14O0 AID. lived
on Weedons. Island. The evidence is
that the most efficient tribe Of these
early redmen was highly. cultured
! and far advanced in tho art and ar
tifices Of beautiful pottery work.
Some Of their buried treasures are
masterpieces Of decorative art. The
! designs, although fapciful, arc fln-
ished productions OF. what seems 10
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Excavations Made
to Establish Con-
Meeting Links Be-
tween Aborgines Of
North and South
America--S -SearcherS
Expect to Uncouer
More Than 1000
Skeletons -Beauti-
full Pottery Work Is
Found With Bones.
By GEORGE III. DACI.

w YHILE Carter is busily en-
M gagged in his excavation en-
" " terprise at the tomb of
King Tut-ankh-Amen in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-01
SHOWING WHAT TRAINING
CAN DO FOR DANCERS

After La Paviva and her COM
pany had closed their dance and
song Offering I was sure that had
sen a good example Of what train
ing can dc for a dancer. This woma7
is splendid on her feet in dance.
So is her dancing partner. Both
have that sure dancing touch which
marks every dance they do. This
comes only from careful training. A
Spanish dance is done with skill
and beauty of movement. The act
enlists the services of a soloist and
a pianist.
The Marigold Trio is male trio
which develops the comedy possible.
ties of a song. Their green apple song
gets the laughs as well as why Did
I Kiss That Girl" John Olms
opens the show with magic act in
which he uses all sizes of watches
and clocks. He can make a Big Ben
vanish as easily as watch. Good
act.
Pisano and Landaver are two men
who work along eccentric lines in
song. The big man of this act has
a real voice. He has personality and
splendid jazz grooming voice.
Talent here.
A dog and pony circus, Clemens
Belling and his family. close the