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Show Sleepy Indians Are Aroused by Treasure Hunts Archologit, Exploring Max. .' lean, Tombs, Meat Cool ' . Rscaptlon In Many , Placet - Br tMllM veaa OAXACA CITY. Mexico, Jan 1 Tha . government's excavations In Monte Alban, where tha richest finds on tha continent vera reported during tha past year, have aroused sleepy Indiana In the region. Tha archeologists working under Professor Alfonso Case, it was learned today, are receiving a cool welcome in many placee. Indians refused to let them remove carved stone slabs from the modern Zapo-tecan Zapo-tecan village of Zaachila, a few miles south of Monte Alban. An American engineer said In-Idians In-Idians aittinx-on walls of em ancient city, with riflea across their knees, watched him suspiciously aa he worked over tha site of a supposed buried treasure. Ancient treasures have become the common legend of every Indian ruin in Mexico, particularly since tha discovery dis-covery a year ago of a valuable collection col-lection of gold ornaments and Jewels Jew-els In the Mixtex tomb of Monte Alban. Al-ban. Mora treasures have been uncovered un-covered since then In "White mountain," moun-tain," home of Mixtex and Zapotec civilisations. Brilliant colored paintings, paint-ings, described aa the most Important find by Professor Caao, were uncovered uncov-ered last November. The excavationa were resumed this month with the finding of many finely fine-ly carved Jades. Ten tombs are being be-ing Investigated on tha fortress mountain. The atone slabs which tha Indians refused to let go were from an Indian In-dian city which wat the capital of the Zapotec kingdom when the Span-iarda Span-iarda came In 1521, on the aita of modern Zaachila. Soma of the carved slabs were in the modern village vil-lage pavement and others in the masonry ma-sonry of an old church. The suspicious feelings aroused m the Indiana hava brought to the surface sur-face heretofore submerged folklore. Tha inhabitants of Tilantoneo. former for-mer capital of an ancient Mixtec city-state. In tha heart of the mountains moun-tains and far off the new road through tha region, claim to know all about the treasure found in Monte Alban last year. They aay the burial bur-ial occured after the Spaniards came and that the large white discs of shell placed in the hollow of a certain cer-tain skull were put there so the Mixtec chief "might never have to look. In life or death, in this world or in the next, on the gods of the white men." |