Show mummified aed dwarf found in canyon cave explorers VV IV find traces of fio forgotten rotten race recalling a discovery of the mum my of a dwarf in nine mile canyon near price in 1980 1880 by an eastern expedition two utah men hare have made 2 similar dis covery in another part of the same can canyon ron it became known here saturday lee snyder and E 1 8 nee of myton exploring rain 1 canyon in the nine mile grona of canyon canyons die dis covered a cave cliff house in which was aas the body of what appeared to be a dwarf together with a large number of relics relies beside the dwarfed body they found another sn other mummy at first the n ammy of what appears to bo be a dwarf was taken for a child lut close examination hows shows that the body was that of a more mature maturo individual and that even eien the wisdom teeth had grown the dwarf like body measured 33 in ites and hid hta fine brown brownlie lih hair it had been interred in a bag big made of cedar bark and a woven article had been placed on its breast it hid had email small hands and feet the finders of the mammy believe that while the individual may not hare have been a natural dwarf it may hae been that andt indans 1 n 3 of this region practiced dwarfing of captive chil dren of their enemies en emica as a is declared to have been the case vita milli certain andean tribes the other mummy found wua the dwarfed one appears to lave been scalea the cliff house in chich v aich the find was nwe maae is up minnie maud creek in ruin canyon five miles west of nine mile ferry on the green river the entrance to the house was so small that it had to be enlarged before it could be entered there 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 curiously variously shaped storage baclet jr jur which was filled with grass seed numerous pottery fragments frig ments sev cral pieces of which aich were decorated an eleven foot string una of 2750 atone stone ebale beads b eads which 11 in n the main we were re quite uniform in shape end and make tind were not much thicker thin a it copper rivet washer numerous airow heads and knife blades several bask ets two of which were filled with heavy black ochre achre a piece of sand stone with paint bone ii needles edles ar row shafts and a pair of sandals aluch w inch are of a different pat tern from those usually found near these wag was considerable sinew cord and four scalps of fio the whole hair bair part of tho head the inside tf rf the scalps being faced A skeleton of some small about the size of a norway rat a small cane or planting stick and snowshoe frame were also found besides the above aboe the to tto mies were found one large one and one of a child or a dwarf both of these were flexed each being wrap ped la in a woven cedar bark blanket there appears to be indications that the large one oae had bcd scalped |