MYSTERY INDIANS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 509, 12 November 1928, Page 11

MYSTERY INDIANS

NEW TRIBE DISCOVERED j A race of Indians, differing in culture from any now known, lived on tiie American continent between fifteen and twenty thousand years ago, the International Congress of Americanists was told at its closing session Dy Barnum Brown, curator of fossil reptiles at the American Museum of National History. In fossilised buffalo bones discovered near Folsom, N.M., several arrowheads unlike any so far known in Indian lore, were found, Brown said. The bones were the remains of a food kill, and were preserved by debris as left by the Indians. The arrowheads are fluted and of a workmanship which the speaker said equalled if it did not surpass anything heretofore discovered in America. The fossils were excavated by the American museum and the Denver, Col., museum. Experts from the latter institution have been working on the deposit for two years. Sixteen arrows of the lost people were discovered during the quarrying. Brown declared that the find indicated an idea in archery different from that of any modern Indian, but approached by the Hopewell people, although with a refinement and technique superior to the latter’s.