| Show Indians Indians' Vanity Shown by Fake Ornaments Ornament The ancient Indian chiefs whose bones He lie burled buried In Ohio mounds were not above making and wearing artificial artificial arti artl- Jewelry when Wilen the natural natural materials materIals materials ma ma- were not readily available Investigation of ot tile the of ot the so so- called Hopewell Culture by Dr H. H C. C Shetrone of the Ohio State ArcheologIcal Archeo- Archeo logIcal and Historic society has disclosed disclosed dis die closed a n number of bone ornaments accurately and artistically carved In Imitation mutation of bear benr teeth tooth Bear necklaces were weri highly highl prized by this long-burled long people They accompany many of the more Important burials Only the Jong ke eyeteeth were used anti and the larger ones were frequently fre fre- Inset with river mussel pearls as ns big as as' as peas jeas Most of ot the teeth are of the common black bear hear which ranged throughout North America but bui frequently specimens are found of ot undoubted undoubted un un- un doubted grizzly bear origin which must have come by primitive trade routes from as far tar awa away as the Rocky m mountains un |
