Show SKULL SHOWS SCALPED EACH OTHER Evidence Proves Indians Practiced Tactics 1 v Prior to Arrival of White Men CHICAGO Feb 20 Discovery ery cry of ot evidence that scalping w was practiced among Indians o of this region region region re re- gion long before white men set foot toot in the Mississippi valley was announced announced an an- Monday by Professor Fay Fay- Cooper Cole head of ot the department of anthropology of the U University of Chicago Proof of the existence of ot the practice was wu supplied by knife knUe marks found on a old year Indian skull in the university's collection The skull that of ot a man about 30 30 was found last summer by ah an expedition expedition tion under the leadership of ot George Neumann along with 50 other skeletons skeletons skeletons tons in an ancient Indian burial ground on the banks of ot the Illinois river near Ander Anderson on lake in Fulton c county There are more th than n 50 scratches scratches- on the skull of the Indian who was killed by three blows on the back of ot the head which fractured the skull Using a flint knife found in an ancient village site near the burial ground anthropology students student of ot the university demonstrated how such a knife knUe could leave marks similar to those on the skull of the slain Indian The skull Is the o only ly one of at thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands found in the Mississippi region of ot prehistoric eras era which bears evidence evidente evi dence dente of scalping In early historic times on this continent continent con con- scalping was wu known only among the warlike Iroquois and among a southern tribe known as the ln The practice spread to the tho plains Indians after bounties were offered for tor scalps during colonial colonial co co- lonial wars Anthropologists disclosed sed that the practice of ot colle collecting ting such gory Rory trophies trophies tro tro- phles is not of American origin It Is noted among the a barbaric barbaric bar bar- baric basic race north of ot Greece by the Greek historian Herodotus in his history of ot the Persian wars which was written in the fifth century B. B C. C It was also common among the Franks and Anglo Saxons late in the ninth century |