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Show Catalina Island Yields Many Ancient Treasures Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Cal. An attempt to follow ancient trails to the long-lost island temple of Chinigchinich, the Sun God, lias resulted re-sulted instead in the discovery of the burial place of a small Indian princess prin-cess of 3,000 years ago and evidence indicating that child sacrifices were made in wholesale fashion by tribes of the Channel islands, off the coast of California. Within a stone urn weighing 134 pounds and fashioned skillfully as -though by modern tools was found -the skeleton of an Indian girl be- tweeu five and seven years. Her hands apparently had clutched the : rim of an urn, whose rich ornaments-tion ornaments-tion of wampum bespeaks her royal lineage. : In a circle with the urn as a center cen-ter were counted by Prof. Kalph Glid-den, Glid-den, curator of the Catalina museum ; of Channel island Indians, the skeletons skele-tons of 04 children buried in tiers four deep with small beads touching , each other. -: Beneath them was the skeleton of a seven-foot man. A spear blade still : was fixed in the ribs. --; The sand within the funeral urn had the appearance of ground crystal . apparently, according to the discoverer, discov-erer, a sacred sand used in the burial of Indian royalty and was far dif- .. ferent from that which had sifted ; over the graves of the other children. . ; These finds as well as a wealth of obsidian knives, spear points and arrow ar-row heads and hundreds of other articles ar-ticles of wampum-inlaid stone and bone have provided material over ; which Glidden has puzzled since he . . discovered them. One thin piece of slate he believes . .. to be a stone map, holes having been drilled to indicate trails to the four main burying grounds on Santa Cata- -Una island. "It is plausible," Glidden said, "that the strange child burial within the urn and those surrounding it were the result of a natural death of a little girl of high rank and the slaying slay-ing of 64 attendants and playmates svith her. Or they all may have been killed in some religious ceremonial rite. "It Is even possible the princess may have been given some potion and bur-ied bur-ied alive. The way the small hands clutched the outer rim of the bowl makes this a possibility." f' Wampum inlaid in four broken t circles on the rim of the urn with ) "gates'' leading to the four points of the compass lead Glidden to believe f the hurial place may be near the site of the temple of Chinigchinich. . |