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MANITOWOC MAN SOWNS VALUABLE (INDIAN RELICSDr. A. R. Wittman ofMerrill, Has FinestCollection.One of t.hlt;» most interesting eollee-lions of Indian relics owned in the stale of Wisconsin and tin* northwest, .is that In possession of Dr. A. R. Witrmnn—of-:VIt-rrHh—a tTmur- iIauLto-_ won man and a brother of Walter Will man of this city. Dr. Will man’s ' collection numbers over 1-iOu relics and fheV connect, the past with thepresent, of th«‘ state.STARTED BY CHILDRENDr. Willumn's collection was started when he tu tight. Bchool at. Kiel, this county. The. children frequently took stead mens of Indian relics to him and soon a col lection was tiegun.fThe large number of specimens are arrow, spear and drill points of stone, principally flint and some of metal, hide scrapers. resembling arrow points, but blunter and rounded, pestles of stone In conical form, a stone rolling jiln, ‘tomahawks, war clubs and spherical balls. The latter were used by the Indians in games. .Of the I,‘IUO relics now In the collee thm. 1UU were found In Lincoln county including a bountiful Hint knife ordagger, such as the imagine!}-n might link with the lift* of a princess and its. iii idescence recalling the rainbow. The dagger is ten and one-half inches in length. Dr. Wittman rays he has seen nothing at all similar to it in 1 museums he has visited. The daggeroiiiineowlt;plre!h10-thPiNiiti*t*.cl-!*-Niseas111:atodb.Klt;-ufarodictmwas pic ked up on a farm belonging to Carl tirnpp, eight miles west of Corning... ......................RARE SPEAR OF QUART2 A quarts spear is six inches in length and two in width. Iti s broken in two and one of the pieces was found fifteen years ago on the. George Howard•fartu The... doctor asked the ownerof the farm to - keep diTjgtait ‘ watch' for the. remainder of the spear. This section was found three years ago on the same farm. The two pieces (it perfectly.A Utrecht trade ax was found with a bear trap in an Indian grave near Big Kdtly.The trap had springs on both sides while, the ax showed that it had been made In Holland. A brass spear was found in tin? town of Corning and a halbert apparently of Spanish make was found by Joseph Boudro twenty years ago. The d. of or regards, the halbert as positive evidence that tout her .Marquette came up the Wise i cousin river to carry on his mission-'I | arv work.EASY TO MAKE STONE POINTS . The shaping of the implements is demonstrated by Dr. Wittmim who say that all that is required to groove tin arrow, drill or spear point, is a bone ~v iTH“SlTaTp -edges—frmi--pt^wm-nuI*II1*t*0u-•lt;tIpisitiTTHiIlls.uriyIt!Dbtbist.wHiWit;h- ~mf111C;Cftwwlit.lOiaEitlt;tonere-.as{a-hoins•illofnt-un-ilB-ntl-Tlie Indian after breaking ti rock into (•hips, takes chips suitable for points and by laying one of these on a hard surface presses‘•the bout: against its edges to trim am' groove it.'1 The bone ,enl.v removes the part against . which pressure is directed and does not. splinter the rest. Where more pressure is directed, the bone m at tached to the end of a crutch fashioned from tree limbs. The crutch is held under the arm pit and groat at .pressure can thus he applied while the arrow point can be securely held by the toes while the chipping process goes on.Wittman has conceived the unique idea of arranging his arrow, spear and drill points and stone fleshers in Indian picture form. Two hundred and fifty individual specimens compose a chief, the same number compose a squaw, 100 are fashioned intoa papoose and 150 into a wolf. All these are life size. 'There is ii miniature wigwam of 100 pieces and the next picture which the doctor hopes to make is a giant. Buffalo.The doctor seme years ago added a collection of 12a Indian pieces to bin treasures, tbo collection being that of the late Rev.... Bteinacher of the German M. to. Church of Merrill, who preached among the early Whites, and iimong Indians at' West-Bend, Wis., many years ago-. Recently another collection of 20(i relics gathered by a Clintonville collector was added.•fenosfWould ConsolidateCounty and City
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Manitowoc Herald News
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Feb 02, 1921
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