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Show hunting points and tools fashioned fash-ioned from flake stone are part of the exhibit as well as arrangements and murals showing the use and manufacture manu-facture of ground stone tools and implements. One exhibit shows how anthropologists an-thropologists have been able to determine relationship between be-tween primitive groups by the shape o skulls recovered in widely separated areas of the country. Displays in other categories include biology, paleontology, zoology and geology exhibits, most of which have been prepared pre-pared by CSU students and personnel. Three exhibits on forest destroyers and deer age dating have been contributed to the museum by the U S Forest Service and Utah State Fish and Game Department. CSU MUSEUM IS POPULAR SPOT Reports from Dr. Richard Thompson, curator of the Southern Sou-thern Utah Museum of Natural Nat-ural History at College of Southern Utah, indicate that the number of museum visitors visit-ors is increasing daily. Dr. Thompson said interest in the exhibits, housed in the old CSU Commons Building, is attracting many area resi dents as well as tourists. The museum, free to the public, is open daily from 12 noon until 9 p. m. and features fea-tures a variety of displays in a number of scientific fields. Of particular interest is the section on archeology and anthropology an-thropology showing replicas of ancient dwellings of the Indians In-dians ' of the Southern Utah ;are aand diagrams indicating trade routes covered by tribes in their quest for goods not obtainable ob-tainable in their own locality. Many artifacts and relics recovered re-covered from excavation sites by CSU students and faculty members are part of the exhibits. ex-hibits. Included are two displays dis-plays on bone ornaments and tools, one of the many arts developed by the original inhabitants in-habitants of the area. Mounted Mount-ed displays of finely crafted |