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Show Catalina Island Yields Many Ancient Treasures Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Caf An attempt to follow ancient trails to the long-lost island temple of Chlnlgchlnlch, the Sun God, bus resulted re-sulted instead in the discovery of the burial place of a small Indian princess prin-cess of 8,000 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 nrn weighing 134 pounds and fashioned skillfully as though by modern tools was found the skeleton of an Indian girl be-tween be-tween five and seven years. Her hands apparently had clutched the rim of an urn, whose rich ornamentation ornamenta-tion of wumpuin bespeaks her royal lineage. In a circle with the urn as a center cen-ter were counted by Prof. Ralph Glld-den, Glld-den, curator of the Catalina museum of Channel Island Indians, the skeletons skele-tons of 64 children 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. The sand within the funeral urn had the appearance of ground crystal apparently, according to the dlscov-erer, dlscov-erer, a sacred sand used In the burial of Indinn royalty and was far different dif-ferent from that which bad 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 Glldden has puzzled since he discovered them. One thin piece of slate be believes to be a stone map, holes having been drilled to Indicate trails to the four main burying grounds on Santa Catalina Cata-lina Island. "It Is plausible." Glldden 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 slay- Ing of C4 attendants and playmates t with her. Or they all may have been killed tn some religious ceremonial rite. "It Is even possible the princess may have been given some potion and burled bur-led alive. The way the small hands clutched the outer rim of the bowl makes this a possibility." Wampum Inlaid In four broken circles on the rim of the urn with "gates" leading to the four points of the compass lend Glldden to believe the burial place mny be near the site V of the temple of Chlnlgchlnlch. |
