Provo Daily Enquirer | 1891-09-24 | Page 1 | Problematic Sculptures

problematic sculpture the valley of john day river a modest tributary of the columbia seems to have become a rendezvous of far western archaeologists sculptures carved into a basaltic ledge of that neighborhood are supposed to represent anthropoid apes and the question is where the oregon indians could have seen the originals of those emblems in sumatra india or some ape haunted region of tho western continent A less romantic solution 0 the enigma would ba the conjecture that the sculptures in question do not represent apes at all but bears or barbarians philadelphia times