Show FIND RELICS scientists unearth queer bones in california skulls suggest existence either of lit tle tie people or strange indian Os interesting cooking utensils utensil atio also found los Ah Angeles geles Ile Revealing either cither a race of hitherto unknown pygmies or the ostracizing of tho the unlit by tho the aborigines of the pacific coast 30 strange malformed skulls and other interesting remains have been dug up near hero here by do moss loss bowers and charles T brown amateur fists whether the relies aro are of pygmies or it a primitive form of eugenics la is a question I 1 cant answer said mr howers the skulls aro are by far nr the anial smallest leat that I 1 havo have encountered in 30 years of excavating for judian in california tile tho malformation of the skulls may bo be highly sig elg though I 1 cant answer whether these were the skulls of the lio unlit unfit the tie morally literally depraved who had been ostracized traci zed or those of py pygmies guiles I 1 ann cnn answer another it Is that these aro are the skulls of fully grown RI inen and women tile mattli maturity Ity of tile the teeth shows allows till this in the grave wo we found ollas olios or cooking bowls of steatite serpentine bowls and of chort chert to redwood lin handles by asphaltum now steatite Is found only on santa banta cuta una ilia island watlo no deposits of sor bor aro are known cataldo of 0 san luis obispo county evidently these pygmies traded with the channel and so called mission indians donea U onos from the head bond or of it whale painted red on oil the inside were used toned as tho the head ano and of the burial cairn though tile the burial bureil bur lil place Is nearly tulles miles from tile sea A mystifying find and tit in tile the cairn was a baked clay bowl tho the indians of arizona and now mexico knew how to bako clay but those of california so far as wo we know lid did not it might bo be that wo we havo have hero here a strange isolated tribe that Is related to others of which wo we know nothing copper vessels of spanish workmanship were also found lit in the gravo grave along with venetian blue beads and stone and beads this liking for ornaments shows allows that tile the tribe was not depraved below tho the esthetic level sonic some shell ornaments were also found of a boring so minute that it suggests that these pygmies were artifice rs of no mean ability fine specimens of fishhooks Ish flab hooks were also dug up together with the car ornaments of sli shells ells i |