Show CANNIBAL MOUNDS WILL BE EXPLORED seek new facts on american man eating indians washington with the departure J for the louisiana coast osa oS 1 colllns jr ethnologist eiith boalan institution initiates alon of an almost forgotten prehistoric life on this continent hb region which extends w arra new orleans was the camping ground of the Atta copa and indians it has been 7 and nothing been written about it mr colllns aho vho Is assistant curator of ethnology in the national musean and whose expedition the burea jf ethnology Is financing alu invests gate the mounds in the nr eith a clew of determining whether true mounds or mere shell heaps adf to collect bones artifacts and pottery so far all the pottery found eulf from I lorlei to louisiana has been similar indicating a re among the peoples sod sue a migration route lail Lj iL cannibal tribe il i L the Atta copa indians were ont the few known cannibal american continent W hether they engaged in alie practice for ceremonial purposes or for the love of it Is not known other cannibal tribes were found in cuba jamaica venezuela colombia and brazil the possessed a much higher culture and seem to have been related to the atchez they had the same caste system division of the tribe into nobles and proletariat and their language Is similar it Is in to note that caste was trans rolsted rolt ted through the mother so that i high caste mother could bear high caste children to a low biste father while the children of a low caste mother must remain low caste no mat ter who was their father incleden tally one method of climbing the so cial ladder and entering a higher caste was to sacrifice ones relatives at the death ot a noble explore choctaw mounds from louisiana mr colllns will proceed to mississippi to continue ecca begun last year of choctaw mounds the old belief that these mounds were the work of some fan alful ancient race entirely distinct from the american indian has long been exploded it Is now known den that they are the work of the ancestors of the choctaw or related peoples who built them as burial mounds or more commonly as plat forms for the erection of their tern lles and the homes of their leaders the largest of these mounds Is feet high and covers an area of about 16 acres when it Is realized that the builders had nothing but crude sticks and stone implements with which to dig and reed baskets in which to transport the dirt the in of the religious feeling which could produce such a monument mav be understood |