Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 16 January 1892, Page 2

Notes and Events.

The party which, under the direction of Chief Putnam of the department of Ethnology, of the Chicago Exposition {, has been making excavations of the mounds in Ohio for three months or more, met with rare success on November 14th near Chillicothe, in making one of the richest finds of the century in the way of pre-historic remains. While at work on a mound 500 feet long, 200 feet wide and 28 feet high, the excavators found near the centre of the mound, at a depth of 14 feet, the massive skeleton of a man incased in copper armour. The head was covered by an oval-shaped copper cap*; the jaws, had copper moldings ; the arms were dressed in copper, while copper plates covered the chest and stomach, and on each side of the head, on protruding sticks were wooden antlers ornamented with copper. The mouth was stuffed with genuine pearls of immense size, but much decayed. Around the neck was a necklace of bears' teeth, set with pearls. At the side of this skeleton was a female skeleton, the two being supposed to be those of man and wife. It is estimated that the bodies were buried fully 900 years ago. The exca\ators believe they have at last found the king of the mound builders.