Show new indian for massachusetts P F W putnam peabody professor of 01 amerl american can archaeology and ethnology at harvard tilty has presented to secretary of sante olin a description of an indian which he thinks should take the place of the present one on the massachusetts coat of arms the present indian Is agreed by all who know anything about it to be but a poor representative of the type which was here in massachusetts in IA the days of the early settlers and secretary olin alln has hab for a longtime been anxious to remedy this defect in his bis report prof putnam gives a description of bf the accouterments and wearing apparel of the figure and gives hio authority for the use of 0 each article and also for their positions on the figure he pla places e es the bow in the left hand and says that tu place it in the right hand band is as absurd as to represent a military officer with his sword hung on the right side he says it Is evident that the man 1112 who made the original drawing of the indian knew nothing about indians he probably had bad never wen seen one and had bad made the drawing from his own ideas the ridiculous blunders which he made have since been perpetuated and und even incorporated into the state law the design of prof putnam will be submitted to 0 the archives committee other designs will also bo be examined reexamined boston transcript |