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Show AN AXCIExNT AMERICAN RACE. mummies and Kelics of a Race Who Lived Before the Cliff Dwellers, on Exhibition Ex-hibition at the B. Y Academy. The collection mummies and relics rel-ics on exhibition at the li. Y, academy are not mummies and relics of the Oliff Dwellers as stated in these columns, but of a race far more ancient; that is, if it is not a fake, and there is no evidences evi-dences that it is. . The men in charge of the collection say that tie mummies, and neariy all of the relics they have were unearthed not more than two months ago in a large cave in San Juan county, forty miles from Bluff c'ty, below the ruins of the Cliff Dwellers' houses. The mummies are the remains of a different race entirely than the C'ff Dwellers, as is proven by the SKuUd. The skulls of the Cliff Dwellers are flat at the back, these are round and well ehapen. There are Beven mummies in ill, one grey haired mau, one apparently appar-ently a youth, a m'ddle-aged man, his fe anr, tA O children, and one other that is little else then a pile of bones. Among the grey haira of the old man are some thai are brown, and his featured fea-tured are not fiose of an Indian, The features of those of the others in some particulars resemble those of Indians, especially those of the middle ged man w hose hair is a raven black, and course like that of an Indian, but his wife's hair is, brown, almost red. The professors at the academy say that their skin in life has not been dark. Each mummy is doubled up with knees under chin, and handa and feet together. Measuring the thigh bones and estimating their height the professors pro-fessors state that in life the men were over 6 feet tall, one at least 6 feet 7 inches. Whtsu found each mummy had sandals san-dals on, and was wrapped in a aort of coarse cl-th and covered with willow baskets, and that again covered with a dry sand inside of a cave excluded absolutely from all moisture mois-ture and any action wbat?ver of the elements. With the mummies were found corn, buckwheat, pipes whoBe bowls were made of onyx, broken implements ot w ar, and .with the woman was found some unfinished sandals that have the appearance even now of being new. C. B. Lang, a young man of Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, who came west a year ago with the Hyde Exploring company in search of relics for the Me ropolitan maseurn of New York is in charge of the collection. collec-tion. In N ovember la st, at San Juan, Mr. Lang left the company for good and sufficient reasons. Forming a company com-pany with Robert Allen, Jens Nielsen and Wm.J. iiix, voun men of Sag J:.ian they went out iiiio the I. ilia i search of relics on their own accord, expecting to eell what they found They dug and searched faithfully with little or no success for many weeks and finally one day when they were about to abandon the undertaking and give it up as a b id job they uncovered the toes of one of these mummies when they went to work with renewed energy and finally uncovered the collection they now have aud for which they have a standing offer of $5,000. The boys are not wealthy and are making exhibits of their fled" charging an admission to help them on their way to the midwinter fair lor which place they are at present destined. Messrs. A len and Nielsen of the company are with the collection. Mr. Nix is at San Juan. |