Show Catalina Island Yields Many Ancient Treasures Avalon Mahon Santa Catalina Island Cal CalAn CalAn An An attempt to follow ancient trails to the long lost Island temple ot of the Sun un God has hal ha re suited Instead In the discovery ery ot of the burial place of a n ill sm-ill Indian princess cess of ot years ago and anel evidence Indicating that child sacrifices were made In wholesale fashion by tribes ot of the Channel islands oil oft the coast ot of California Within n stone urn weighing pounds and fashioned skill skillfully Cully as 01 though ly ty L y modern tools was found the skeleton of or an on In Indian girl Le- Le Lett be tt een the five e and a nd seven years el rs hands apparently had Ind clutched the rim of ot an on urn whose chose bose rich ornamentation lion of ot wampum s 3 her lien royal r lineage In Ju a circle with the urn as al a Ii center con cen center conter ter t were score ere counted by I rot nal Ralph h Gild lIen den curator of ot the Catalina museum ot of Channel Islan 1 I Indians time the skeletons Iele tons of ot Gt GJ children burled buried In tiers four deep with well small heads touching each other Beneath Deneath them was the lie skeleton ot of ota ofa a seven foot man A spear blade still sUII was fi fired In time the ribs rills The sand within the funeral urn had hoel the appearance of ot ground crystal 1 according to the a 1 sand used In the burial ot of Indian royalty and royalty and was far Car dlf different ferent erent from that lint which wheel t had sifted 0 oser er the graves of ot the other children hUdren These finds astell as well tell as a t wealth or of knives nh es spear points and nr ar arrow row v heads and hundreds of ot other oilier or ar tides of ot Inlaid stone and Lone bone ho have base e provided pro material over which h Glidden has puzzled since he ered them One thin piece of ot slate he lie believes to be Ie a n stone map holes having been drilled to indicate trails to the four main burying grounds on Santa Cata llna Island It Is plausible said that the strange child burial within t thIn the urn and those thoe surrounding It were the result of a n natural death of ot a little tittle girl of ot rank ranI and the slay SillY In fug of ot G l G-l attendants an ani 1 playmates with Ith her Or they all have been lilted In some religious ceremonIal rite It Is even possible the princess may have hl been given gisen some potion nod bur burled burled led alive e The way wiy the small hands clutched the outer rim of ot the bo bowl boI I makes this a n possibility Wampum InlaId In four brol broi en encircles encircles encircles circles on the rim of or the urn with gates gales leading leiding to the four points ot of the compass lead Glidden to believe time the burial place may be near the site or of the temple temIe temI Ie of ot h |