Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1931, Page 31

\al A Woman Suffering from they must have consumed enormous | that the Calusas made most of thetr| o Arthritis| writes: T suffered fi my Bands; aise an sta; ing are most pleas P Topolitan 1062 for free booklet. Sold in Washington for 15 Years Mountain Valley Water hone Met- From Hot Springs, Arkansas 806 District National Bank Bldg. Here’s How! The mest pleasant of lazative beverages is Magne: -:':r the Offcial U.8.P, not, put up an in modern fash- fon, "ask your druwist or eVE MAGNESIA RFREsH BONES SEEN TRACE OF EXTINGT TRIBE Skeletons Found on Island Off Florida Believed Those of Calusa Indians. After discovering and opening the tomb of an extinct and mysterious peo- | ple on an uninhabited island off the | coast of Florida, Mathew W. Stirling, | chief of the Bureau of American Eth- nology of the Smithsonian Institution, has just brought back to Washington more than 200 complete skeletons. On the little island, seldom visited for the last 400 years, Dr. Stirling found a great burial mound, approximately 15 feet high and 200 feet in diameter, parts of which were crowded with well preserved remains of the dead. Ar- cheologists previously had found on the coast of a larger island, a few miles away, the largest shell heap thus far discovered in America, indicating a very extensive primitive settlement there. But there Were no burials. So Dr. Stirling set out to find the tribal tomb. He found it over the site of another primitive village, surrounded with a large shell mound. 'Excavations show, he that it probebly was laid down in several distinct units, the old- est of which extends far into the past. The last burials appear to have been made at about the time of the discovery of America. Two skeletons, of a man and a woman, were found side by side, the skulls separated by a curious Span- ish battle ax. This shows that the occupants of the grave must have come in contact with the white men, but the scarcity of other European artifacts in- dicates that the contact was recent. Almost a Myth. There is little doubt, Dr. Stirling says, but that the mound was a burial place | of the Calusa Indians, who are known to have inhabited parts of the Florida coast late in the fifteenth century, but who vanished so completely shortly aft- erward that they are practically a mythical people. They are known today only from their shell heaps and from their skeletons. They were remarkable in having the most massive jaws of any historical people, approaching nearest in this respect to the pre-human types. ‘They are belleved to have been a very | primitive and_war-like people, living | \'nrzz‘lv on shellfish, of which, judging | | from the size of the mounds they left, wouldn’t go with stains on your necktie round THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1931. q“fi'&:fi: ho dug a trench completely , W [ p around the burial mound, found a rather complicated arrangement. At the bottom on one side he uncovered a smaller mound of gravel which had been covered with a layer of hard, blue clay. ‘This, he says, appears to have been the floor of & mortuary temple, which has completely disappeared. The clay layer, which made the mound water-tight, helped preserve the skeletons. Among the rare finds were the skeletons of two infants. These, Stirling explained, al- most never are found in ancient burials, because there is so little mineral matter in a child’s bones that they fall to pieces quickly. In this section of the mound the bodies apparently had been buried at about the time of death since the bones were arranged naturally in a flexed position. But in the course of genera- tions the people evidently outgrew this “tomb” and were forced to make ex- tensions. Finally, illustrating the great amount of time that must have elapsed, the mortuary temple not only disappeared, but was covered with about seven feet of other burials. The whole structure is flatted-topped and Stirling believes that a temple must have surmounted the whole, although no trace of it can be found. Pottery and Axes Found. In the later sections of the tomb he found many “bundle burials,” where the bones of an individual would be placed together neatly with the skull on top. Such burials are evidence of the removal of the bones from some other place, 5',!rl\n§1 says. Artifacts throwing light on the culture of the people were scarce. This is probably due, according to Stirling, to the fact For implements of perishable wood. He found a considerable number of conch shell axes and pick-axes, some of which may be of considerable value in establishing a chronological sequence for other usa remains. He also found some pobttery fragments in a fair state of preservation and some pendants of fossil shark teeth, the edges ground down so as to form perfect triangles. The skeletons, Stirling says, appear to be of two types and may be expectea to yield valuable data when studied. In ‘the older sections of the mound believed typical of the Calusa, while in the new sections these were mixed with smaller, more roundd skulls which indicate that there had been an invasion from the North. Although the Calusas evidently were a people of considerable importance, Stirling ex- plained, the only information to be |had concerning’ them must be | obtained by the shovels of archeolo- | glsts the swampy country which they inhabited. It is known that they were uncompromising_enemies of_the Spaniards, which attitude may have hastened their disappearance. Sues for $25,000 Damages. 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