| Show Smithsonian Aid Uncovers Traces of An Ancient Race of Indian Brewers A prehistoric race of Indians who were the longest longest beaded headed people ever known on earth may also have been among the heaviest drinkers ac sc- according cording to discoveries in the Big Bit BigBend BigBend Bend country of ot west Texas an an- announced announced by the Smithsonian tion A tremendous cave hewed out of at ofa ata a limestone cliff cUff and apparently used wed as a ceremonial brewery was wai excavated near Dryden Texas by Frank M. M Setzler bead head curator of the institutions institution's department of an While searching for dwelling site sites of this mysterious people whose existence he be discovered only seven years rears ago Setzler located a cave 60 feet wide by 40 feet deep that gave evidence of extensive cooking op op- op- op Settler Setzler and his assistants dug through nine feet of debris uncovering uncovering ering arrowheads scrapers drills and stone knives but a relative scarcity of the the usual cooked ani ant animal mal coal bones bonel and human skeletons The caves cave raven ordinarily were both dwelling and d burial places pl ce In front of the cave was an ao eb b normally large accumulation of cooking stones Furthermore there them were great deposits of ot ashes of ot so- so sotol sotol sotol tol the e lily from which a highly po po- potent potent potent tent alcoholic beverage was brewed In addition to the lack of ot animal bones and human skeletons Indi skeletons indi indicating eating cating that the cave was wai not used to house bouse a family group group and and the abundance ab abw dance of cooking stones and iota ashes evidence that tha t the eave cave was wai a brewery came from a boul boul- boulder boulder boulder der with a hole holo drilled in it The boulder may have bave been used wed as 81 a brewing kettle |
