Show A GIANTS glants IN 4 A UND professor norris the ethnologist who has been examining the mounds in this section of west virginia for several months the other day opened the big mound on col B H smiths farm six or eight miles below here this is the largest Mot mou mound indAn in the talley and proved a rich storehouse store house r tho the mound is fifty feet high and they d dug u down to the bottom it was accidentally the burial place of a noted chief who had been interred with unusual honors at the bottom they found the bones of a human being measuring in seven feet in fan length til ali and ulli nineteen eteen inches across the lie lle was wash lying flat and at either side lying at an augle angle of about 45 degrees with their feet pointed toward their chief were other men on one side two and on the other three at the head of the chief lay another man with his hands extended before him and bearing two bracelets of copper on each side of the chiefs chief Is wrists were six copper bracelets while a lookingglass looking glass of mica lay at his shoulder and a gorget of copper rested on his breast four copper bracelets were under his heady head with an arrow in the centre contre A house honse twelve teet feet in diameter and ten tell feet high with a ridge pole one foot in diameter ameter had been erected over them and the whole covered by the dirt that formed the mound each of the men buried there had been in a bark coffin charleston IV V call |