Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...five hundred years old, has just been presented to the Peabody Museum by Clarence B. Moore '73, of Philadelphia, a man prominent in archaeological research. The vessel, which is carefully modelled and chased, was found in an aboriginal cemetery near Point Washington, Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida. Under it was a skull, with the tip of the chin just projecting through a break in the vessel. The skull, showing the receding forehead of the North American Indian, is included in the gift...
...over to the Museum. Important work among the Indians has been done by Miss Alice C. Fletcher, who studied the of the Pawnees, in Oklahoma, and by Dr. Frans Russell, in Arizona. Professor Putnam visited California and collected specimens of gravel in the region or where the famous Calaveras skull was found in order to decided the disputed question of its precise source and age by comparing these gravel with the gravel take from the skull...