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Show In an Indian Monnd. Dr. J. F. Snyder, a Virginia, Ills.,, archaeologist, has just returned home from Schuyler county, Els., where' he opened an Indian mound. The corpse was in the tumulus of a chief. It had been laid with the head to the east On the forehead of the decayed skeleton was found a crescent shaped ornament of thin, hammered copper. On the breast had been placed a large sheet of mica that no doubt had served as a mirror. mir-ror. On one side of the skull was a small pottery vase of peculiar form. In one hand was a small stone - ax, and in the other several arrows and spearheads of flint, a few bone awls and fragments of a large sea shell Chicago Herald. |