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RELICS OF FOX :i ENOiANS SHOWNy\ _____i Davenport Academy Receives Collection of Especial I Local Interest.A number of old relics preserved by the Fox Indians of |rama county and dating back to the days when ■ | this tribe lived on the banks of the Mississippi, where Hock Island now ! | stands, are part of the collection now j I being installed in the museum of the i I Davenport Academy of Sciences. This | collection has been made by Dr. Tru- i I man Mlchelson of the bureau of ethnology. Washington. who has been making a thorough study of the Meskwakl cr Fox Indians at Tama, and was i therefore able to secure many rare j and unique things. The collection fills j a number of cases in the room devoted to American archaeology and eth-j nologv. It will be open to view of the j public tomorrow afternoon, and every afternoon thereafter.In the collection are models of a! wigwam in which the Indians lived ! in the winter time, and a bark house I in which they lived In the summer.I There are several suits of clothing for i both men and women, including some ( of the skin garments with beads and ; also gome more modern every-day and gala garments still preserving some of the old ornamental figures. There ! are also samples of their bags and J mats, shewing the different systems of weaving and other old Indian •designs.One case is full of articles of domestic use and the like, including; samples of genuine old Indian corn and t beans. Another case is devoted to | sacred objects, some of which are of , great age. Among these are medicines and charms used by hunters to bring about good results. Perhaps the most unique of these objects is a carv- j ed walnut human figure with a neck-I lace of old stone arrowheads and a'| robe made of buffalo skin. I
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Rock Island Argus
Rock Island, Illinois, US
Sat, Dec 05, 1914
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