Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-13 | Page 1 | Thought it Was Junk

THOUGHTIT Plaster Casts Prove to Be Life Masks of Great Value Washington. Sept. 13. More than fifty plaster ca;Us, mostly heads of American Indians, which have reposed in the cornices of the pension office': hall, will become tho property of tho . bureau of ethnology. Interior depart-1 ment officials recently ordered a complete com-plete renovation of the building and: had expecied to dispose of these casts as Junk, until manuscripts found under; un-der; a bust of Sir Walter Scott, gavel identity to tb facts. I The manuscript., uciicrlbe tho life ! masks as those of Indian prisoners In ; custody at Fort Marion, near St. An-I An-I guMtine, Fla.. and of Indian children ' at lhe Hampton. Va.. Indian school. ' Several white faces w,ie represented i among those In the collection. Includ-I Includ-I Ing General Meihs. architect of the pension building; Sir Waltei Scott. Alexander Al-exander Hamilton and John Slidcll. once United suites senator from Louisiana.