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Collection of Indian Relics Easily Made, Warden SaysAny young person, boy or girl, privileged to see the collection of : Indian relics and carlo* made by John Egan, conservation warden, and displayed in the library of his home,.1416 South 14th street, would be Isplred to spend an extra hour or two in the country every week to look for objects left by Indians or early settlers.That’s a hammer head found when a sewer wae being dug at Chilton. The smaller copper arrow head on this card was picked up when sod was removed from the south side Junior high school site I was told that this skull Is of in Indian woman. It was taken from a mound along the Menominee river In Marinette county.”So the description goes when one questions Mr. Egan about hlr interesting collection. He remembers where every major object was found and has a little anecdote about each.Two Notches On Ax StoneB that to the Inexperienced eye are merely a part of the land* scape reveal themselves to be useful Implements when Mr. EganytyIno-.8-lt*lcinam-n*rn-islins,?8SorInvf!Ihetshows them to you. Rounded stones, almost the size of a crabapple, are what the Indians used In slings.A light flattened stone, Its sides chipped to give a sharp edge, was used as a scraping tool, he explains.Ax heads, of course are easily Identified. One In the collection bears two notches on the back denoting, the warden was told, the number of persons killed by It. Blunt, compared to the steel ax of today, the stone axes could be used to chop down trees.... One of the articles of historical Interest, not of Indian origin, la a Civil War newspaper printed In Vlckaburg, announcing the capture of that post. The news was printed on the back of wallpaper. Although Mr. Egan has no definite proof, he believes that the paper Is an original and not a copy. It bears the heading, Vicksburg Dally Citizen,” and the date, July 2, 1803. The announcement of the capture, however, at the bottom of the page, Includes the date of July 4, 1863. Wallpaper, was used because no other printing material was available. The paper was property of his father, a Civil War veteran.8tarted at 14 YearsThe warden, whose knowledge of the out-of-doors and pleasure in It have made him a friend of countless Boy Scouts, started his collection of curios at the age of 14 years.You can pick these things up at little cost from others who have found them and you find many yourself,” he remarked to show that it Is not prohibitively difficult to accrue a large number of relics.Most of the objects to be found In this county were removed late In the 19th century when a fad prevailed to strip mounds. Known camp sites In this region were at -Two Rivera Point, Two Rivers. Manltow;oc Rapids, near Elfccher Creek, anfr the'Tdritff of tne 'ftiani1 * towoc river near the C'fl/timei Coja- '' ty lin^, the woodsman said. A large number of effigy mounds and gardens could be found at the forks, he said.- It 1* -belltareij Ciiat af. one time 2,000 Indians lived af the site between Two Rivers and Two Creeks. More copper Instruments have been found there_than..at.any. other site... in Wisconsin, according to Mr. Egan. Most of these knives and Arrowheads were collected by H. P. Hamilton and are now at the state historical- museum. •
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Manitowoc Herald Times
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Oct 28, 1932
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