Show Ca catalina tatina island yields many anc ancient i ent treasures avalon santa catalina island ind cal an attempt to follow ancient trails to the long lost island temple tempi of the sun god has resulted instead in the discovery odthe of tha burial place of a small indian princess cessor ot years ago and evidence indicating that child sac sacrifices were made in wholesale fashion by tribes of the channel islands off the coast of california within a stone urn weighing pounds and fashioned skillfully as 0 though by modern tools was found the skeleton of on an indian girl between five and seven years tier her hands apparently had clutched the rim an of an urn whose rich ornamentation of wampum bespeaks her royal lineage in a ciral e with tile the urn as aa a center ie were counted by prof arf und grid den curator of the catalina museum of channel Cl iannel island indians indiana the skeletons of 04 64 children hurled burled in tiers four deep with small heads touching each other beneath them was the skeleton of a seven foot man A spear blade still was fixed in the ribs tho the sand within the funeral urn had the appearance of ground crystal apparently according to the dincov berer erera a sacred sand used in the burial of indian royalty and was mir far different from that which had find sifted pitted over the graves of tile the other oilier children these ri iese finds as aa well as a wealth of obsidian knives spear points and orrow arrow heads and hundreds of other articles of wampum inlaid stone aind and bone have provided material over which glidden has puzzled sin since cc to lie i discovered them one thin piece illece of slate blate he believes to b be a stone sione map holes having been drilled to indicate trails to the four main burying grounds on fanfa catalina island it if ti Is plausible glidden so said id that flint the strange child burial within tile the urn and those surrounding tt it were the result of a natural death afu th of a little girl of high rank and the blu slaying of 64 attendants and playmates with tier her of they all may have iee been n killed in some religious ceremonial atte I 1 it la Is even possible the princess may have been given some potion and burled alive the way the small email hands clutched the outer rim of the bowl makes a possibility wampum inlaid in four broken circles on tile the rim of the urn with gates leading to the four points of the compass lead glidden to b mopie the burial place may be near tile the site of the temple of |