Word: charriere
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...Charrier's early "scavenger hunts were sparked by a general interest in early Louisiana history. Why the Tunica settlement? "I guess because I knew it existed," he says simply...
Beginning in 1968, Charrier--who was then only 26 years old--excavated the village and an accompanying burial ground almost single-handedly. Since he had no place to keep the finds, he stored the relics in every available space in his home while he looked for a buyer...
...same time Charrier was trying to sell his goods, the Peabody Museum's Lower Mississippi Survey Group began a study of the southern part of the Mississippi River Valley. Alerted to Charrier's find by a local archeologist. Brain traveled to Louisiana to examine the collection that describes the scene at Charrier's home in a book he wrote about the artifacts...
...Charrier did not accept Harvard's offer for the collection, but did agree to lease the artifacts to the University while he continued negotiations with Harvard. The talks became complicated when Harvard lawyers asked Charrier for a legal document from the owner of the land he had excavated renouncing any claim to the Tunica collection. First Charrier refused to disclose the excavation site, claiming the landowner did not want it known he had allowed Charrier to open Indian graves. Later he admitted he had no such document...
After the heirs squabbled over the ownership of the relics for two years without coming to a solution. Charrier jumped back into the fight. In 1974, he filed suit asking a Louisiana state district court to declare him the owner of the treasure...