Show tolden nl Relics of Old Race Discovery of Ornaments and Trinkets of ofa a Past Long J Jf f Period Has Aroused Archeologists to Speculation Speculation t 1 lation as to the Makers 1 I Four or flee c years car ago se se oral eral poor ignorant natives cS were polln poling and their way In a canoe up the Rio Grande de Code Coele n a large rIver In Panama about 00 miles western of the PAnama canal The dry Benson had lowered the river n As small craft made Its lY ay up upstream stream the keen eyes of one of the thel noted something In Inthe inthe ath es the bank banI bankIn l t tIn In a few minutes greedy reedy hands h ere tearing at the soil for the they had e of gold The fact that 4 pIe he he gold articles were objects of art beaten eaten Into CUriOUS and beautiful b by hands long dead did not hapes bapes ya yal l 1 Interest the natives es But Dut It did In iii scientists hen word ord of the theO the Peabody museum O to 11 find nd came f Bar university a parts part of arCheOlogists went vent do down don n to m ins estl esti sate gate The sCientists worked In se et for three yeats and have now with Ith a store tore of gold ob orth a kinds km's ransom In the I pinion of Dr S K leader of ct the expedition the they represent the ther r t tt Curt t of a In Panama that as hitherto been unknown to sd sd hence nce 1 The chance which bl brought ou ht scientists I v I to the spot nas as due to n a shift in the bed of the Rio de Code Cocle In changing Its course the cut Tough brOugh nn an ancient burying bur mg place gold ornaments orn which excited e e 11 r p ithe be interest of the natives were part it tp-f tp f the funeral dress of some long burled not only ode z forgotten chieftain ln Ph his richest possessions of metal land d pottery but surrounded also by byh h wives Ivec retainers sel and td ad es J i h The abundance of similar finds 1 c by the Peabody museum party Its three year ear sojourn in Panama t Was as almost precedent De- De the results of the pe f expedition lUon recently recently in the ew York TImes magazine Doctor Lothrop reported 1 i b hat from one gra grace e alone ng no mOle than 12 by 14 11 feet more morean an 2000 objects were ere removed oat cm t The gl grave we contained a score of oft t r laid out in fn ro rows s upon massive e E tone slab slabs Plied Piled over and mound the bones were ere 00 G different objects Hof f gold gollI including four hews hea pend I Tints set with Ith semi precious pl stones k gold necklaces containing thou ands of beads four large and 1 yX Z ly embossed golden discs twenty t tent ent discs about 3 Inches wide Ide which 4 rid d once been sass SC n on a shirt four I ru ars of gold cuffs cutTs and t twenty enty four fourC G C Cods of gold with mth decorated tips for I in the cars There were 2 j 5 pottery l LL L J th for domestic sen and for re- re 1 offerings There were 57 IStone tone axes and chisels 11 e gold chIs IS s gels 21 stone knives es stone arrow ron rOl nIne mirrors of hematite set setd d lt lImestone discs pendants and eads ds of agate statuettes cawed ed om the rIbs of the manatee or see sel ow some of them 0 o with withold ith l IDA DAl old amid lid boars tusks set get In gold and sa fish teeth irv sed as ab spear points sharks tooth cr gIlded copper or and many other objects Such a list gl gies but a pale pic 1 re of the reality said Doctor throe Gold doe does not tarnish In InI Ine ine I e earth and It ming gleaming r lithe sun as our knives and aDd brushes brushe remo ed the accumulated la layers ers of IntrIcate designs ten beaten In high relief the e eye e breastplates n with Ith mythological mon I alters gold cuffs running in sheets rom rom arist rist to elbow each paIr tamped with a e a r property marl mark corresponding to d nr coat of arms comple castings fl f strange anthropomorphIc gods n II in molds over oYer delicate odds In Wax The richness J and fine of these possessions Jt that a well established and highly culture them Doctor Lothrop and u fist SIt associates beIle e from a study tudy f the relics that the Panama peo t es s were unrelated In culture either their neighbors the Ma Maas as and to north northwest est or the Incas the south In short the discos disco cry these graces has brought to light mains of a hitherto n Amer Amern n as great and impora a nt in Its wa way perhaps as an any of e others Who Vho were these people Histories it ate that a party of Spaniards In rah reh of gold left the coat coast of Pan w ama In 1515 Mo hosing Ing inland the they lama came to It a dIstrIct ruled b by a power powel powerful ful chIef named ParIta who ho by a stratagem such stich a crush I ind in defeat to the Spaniards ds that they they's the s 's ere di is en oft Se eral years later a bind of Spaniards d searching for hIm found his body elaborately decked for burial burill by b bound cap tires tl who were ere to accompany him to hIs grave e HIs body aas as adorned from held head to foot Ith golden otna Olna I meats ments and mans others CI e In bas baskets nearby Stripping the body and robbing the baskets the Spaniards returned to the coast with more than poun pounds of gold Parita and his subjects ts were ably 1 remnants of the once cl 1 which produced the orna ornaments meats ments and relics recently Unco Bred cred by bv From archeologists Irom the Literary Digest |