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Show MUMIFIED DWARF FOUND IN CAVES Recalling a discovery of the mummy mum-my of a "dwarf" in Nine Mile eayon, near Price, in 1880, by an eastern archaeogical expedition, two Utah men have made a similar discovery in another an-other part of the same canyon, it became know here Saturday. Lee Snyder and E. S. Noe, of My-ton, My-ton, exploring 'Ruin oayon, in the Nine Mile group of cayons, discovered discover-ed a cave-house in which was the body of what appeared to be a dwarf together with a large number of relics. Beside the dwarfed body, they found another mumtmy. At first the mummy of what appears to be a dwaf, was taken for a child, but close examination examinat-ion shows that the body was that of a more mature individual, and that even the wisdom teeth had grown. The dwarf-like body measured 33 inches, and had fine brownish hair, It had been interred in a bag made of Cedar bark and a woven article had been placed on its breast. It had 9mall hands and feet. The finders of the mummy believe that while the individual may not have been a natural dwarf, it may have been that Indians of this region practiced dwarfing of captive children chil-dren of ther enemies, as is declared to have been the case with certain Andean tribes. The other mummy found with the "dwarf" one, appears to have been scalped. The cliff house in which the find was made is up Minnie Maud creek in Ruin cayon, five miles west of Nine Mile ferry on the green river. The entraee to the houj;e wap so small that it had to be enlarged before it could be entered. Ther were two rooms in the house. The following things were found in the lower or main room, the only thing found in the other (upper) room entered being a large, epuriously shaped storage basket jar which was filled with grass seed. Numerous pottery fragments, several sev-eral pieces of which were decorated; an eleven-foot string of 2,750 stone-shale stone-shale beads, which in the main, were quite uniform in shapje and make and were not much thicke than a copper rivet washer; numerous arrow heads and ksife blades; several baskets, bask-ets, two of ' which were filled with heavy black ochre; a piece of sandstone sand-stone with paint; bone needles; arrow shafts; and a pair of buckskin sandals which are of a different pattern from those usually found. Near these was considerable sinew cord, and four scalps of the whole hair-part of the head, the inside of the scalps being faced. A skeleton of some small animal, about the size of a Norway rat; a small cane or planting stick and snowshoe frame were also found. Besides the above the two mummies mum-mies -ere found, one large one and one of a child or a dwarf. Both of these were flexed, each being wrapped wrap-ped in a woven cedar bark blanket. There appears to be indications that the larger one had been scalped. |