Show INDIAN BONES SEEM ANCIENT Teeth Strong and Worn Down in in Skulls at Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA Cal May Mayis is 18 Tho Indians whose r remains hove e been found In the Burton mound excavations in this city I probably were an ancient race raco when Columbus discovered Amer Amer- AmerIca America ica lea according to J B Harrington of the Smithsonian onlan institute oho ho Is superintending the thc work worle wo We Wo know positively that the skeletons already found round close to the surface In ou our l excavations excavation a were burled long before be Core the th Spaniards came to California fild Harring- Harring Harrington ton ton The Th most recent remains remain certainly have hae been lying thero there for not less than five h e centuries In ln none of the tb graves ts opened Is there any evidence e o of contact between the tho natives native and the Span Span- SpanIards Span lards lards of the hI be MissIon period I confidently that the th discoveries discoveries eries cries here will carry us s back Into remote antiquity 1 TEETH VERY y STRONG SiRO G Jf Nothing Nothing- has ha excited more inter Inter- Interest Interest interest est among the c and the tho cro croad d of spectators than the re- re remal remarkable re mal kable tooth development of hue ancient natives In all the th skulls skull that ha have hae e been taken hen out not one has been b en round ground found with Ith a aca ca cavity caIly Ily in the teeth leeth The rhe molars are arc broad and andare ure much worn torn orn down by the grit and sand in the acorns and other foods of these Indians In sonic aonie of the skulls kulls the Incisor or front teeth leeth are almost as broad broadas broadas broadas as a white man mans s molars and meet together edge to edge like the front teeth of o a horse These are 1110 also worn norn do down don n to a surprising surprising extent extent said Harrington It It must t bp bf rem remembered ho e said that the Indians used theIr teeth te th like a t third hand One has only to watch atch an Indian woman oman making maidaI baskets or sexing BC Ing to observe ob- ob ser serve sere erv e this The mans man's teeth stem SLem decadent when hen one on views Ie s the tho dentition of these thes skulls kulls T CE GE snows SHOWN Many of th skulls already found Indicate that the th dead man had haj Ih cd to a great creat age ac Harrington added We We have hav found many skulls In 1 tho the Sutures Suture were groan in to- to together together tether to-tether gether absolutely so that the tho tholine theline line of oC demarcation could IlardI hardly bo be Been sten This indicates a very cry Indians great gnat age Among the mission In- In In In tn the tho th padres time many natives reached an ago apo of 13 A discovery ery made mad Thursday uns ns wasa a brilliant lump of oC yellow paint of a n bril- bril bril chrome color found with an- an another another an another other lump of red paint These pigments sere ere the same as a money to the Indians |