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Show Find Trinkets Hidden in Old Pueblo Horais Indian maidens who lived in New-Mexico New-Mexico a thousands or more your ago did not have safety deposit vaults In which to store heir jewelry, so they hid it in the walls of their pueblos Instead. In-stead. W. W. l'osllewaite, treasurer of Colorado college, recently returned from an expedition during which he excavated the ancient pueblo of Che- tro Keli in Cliaco canyon in the New Mexican Navajo desert, lie said that an Indian workman opened a small hole in the adobe wall of a house and found a siring of l.Olo jet and white heads. In a nearby pocket a large number of small hits of turquoise tur-quoise were discovered. l'osllewaite l'oslle-waite believes that the discovery of i he ornaments means that it was the custom to secrete valuables in the masonry of structures when Chetro Keti was inhabited hundreds of years ago. |