Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 14 Jul 1961, p. 11

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ROYAL ONTARIO Museum nrchaeologists have unearth ed skulls of Assinibolne In dians entombcd 76dycars ago in the ltainy River dis trict of Northern Ontario that show strange and per haps gruesome burial rituals Archaeologist Waller Kenyon examines one of it skulls found Seven had been built up with clay on the face and decorated with red ochre Four had large holes in the bee of the cranium suggest ing at the Indians hrtd re moved and eaten the brains of the deceased to gain their powers Labor Department Settles Dispute orrAwa CPtThe labor de partments Tuesday that settlement been mached in volving dispute between lo cal of the United Mineworkers of America and Eldorodo Min ing and Refining Limited at Port Hope The terms of the settlement include wage increases of five cents an hour retroactive to funel and seven cents an hour effective June tosz The two year agreement affects 143 em ployees Expedition Discovers Signs Of Cannibalism cam nouns Carndiu em Staff wine TORONTO CPlA scientific expedition has opened an unex pected chapter in Canadas shadowy prohistory with evi dence of occtdt burial and rit ual cannibalism among the As sinihoine Indians seven con turies alto fourmembcr team from the Royal gt0ntario Museum turned up the evidence early in June while sitting through routine burial ground lntho Rainy River district of North western Ontario The grave held about skeletons including those children Seven adult skulls hora traces of elaborate death 15 masks made of clay colored with red ochre and shall eyu Fourrof the skulls were broken open in such way as to sug gestthe brains had been re movedperhaps eatento pre serve hy magic the special qualities of the men who died Skulls similarly decorated have been found in other an cient groves particularly in Central America the Melane sian Islands of the Pacific and in grave dated 6000 SC on the site of the biblical city of Jericho But expedition leader Walter Kenyon believes his find is uniquedn northwestern Norlh America possibly in the com tinent MAY FILL BLANKS Mr Kenyon confuses there are blank spots in the story the skulls tell chiefly because they do not fit in withknown facts about Indian life But the rtbcky bearded re searcher is certain the din covery will modify an awful mess of things in anthrole ones he completes his study Mr Kenyon who studied um thropology at the universities of British Columbia and Toronto began working in 1959 on the Hungry Hall site named for former Hudsons Bay post near Fortjiances The Issue was great mound some 60 feet across and about 10 feet high covering pit 10 feet across and six feet deep On his first working visit the 44yearold archaeologist cut section through the mound and located the logroofed tomb underneath Radiocarbontests dated the grave of about mo AD He left the tomb unprobed expecting it to yield only rou tine information although it had interest because of its sim ilarity to Indian burial mounds far south along the Ohio River RETURNED IN MAY Grants from the museum and the Quetico Foundation an L9 sociation of business and pro fessional men interested in con servation and research enabled him to return late this May Ila enlisted three assistants Tor onto zoologist Churehcr Mrs Churcher and student anthropologist Patricia Gall The four trowelled into the tomb found human boom shell and birdbone bends and near the remains of the children tiny decorated vases about two or three inches in diameter Mr Kenyon recalls he was Donftakéiétformgranted itth yourtiresswhill last t5 forever Have them checked by the man who knows tires your Dominion Royal dealer He can quickly spot the unsafe tires and hell you why you nhould buy new Dominion Royals the tires that give extra safety greater performance longer mileage Check now Trade notoLBc dollars ahead be safe besure Domm no amateur st MINIUN humus Dominion Rubber BuyDorriinion TiresIAr ION TIRE STORES mm gt lt0LASSIG is ifiiuuuuughcx Barrie thought of anything better to vaiArnEnc macro Liter death sothat the brains worhn slowly through day at the bottom of the tomb think ing this piece of cake well be finished in few hours when he came across the first skull Tendun later was still lying face down in that hole scraping around with dental pro this fellow he said point ing to skull dyed red around the clay filled eye sockets was face down when hit him began scraping away the clay and as got around to the temples saw second layer of day underneath and it was colored red That fellow indicating In other skull with tiny rings of white shell set into the eye sockets was lying right beside the first one saw his left eye staring up at me started to shout and my voice got higher as turned out each skull It was maximum decibels for several hours The first thing shouted was lll be damned and havent to say since GRAVE FOR VIPs The skulls bends vases and cartons full of bones are piled in back room of the museum waiting to be sorted coated with preservative glue and studied Mr Kenyon figures it will take two years of research before he can interpret the dis covery properly He has determined that the Hungry Hall mound was sec ond grave prepared especially for important members of the tribe some time after their death The skulls were found separated from the skeletons in two clusters on opposite sides of the grave At least one of the skulls most of which had smallholcs pierced through the queyes and bore wedgeshaped dents in the nose clay probably be longed to medicineman It was resting on clay tube about eight inches long which has been identified as suck ing tube used by medicine men to draw aches injuries and illnesses out of an ailing Indian The holes in the back of four skulls about three inches in di ameter are judged by Dr Churcher and four other ex perts to have been made shortly could be extracted Like some otherL primitive pgo lesthese inns inay have Iieved in sympathetic magic that they could retain the special powersof those who died by keeping or eating their brains As for the wider story told by the discovery Mb Kenyon can only speculate until be com pletes his research The massive size of the monu ment suggests its buildersbe Iongedto wellorganised well fed society that could afford to spare manpower from food gathering Mr Kenyon believes the Assiniboine way of life may have declined alter 1200 AD because severe change in the climate forced themvback to subsistence level The Hungry Hall tomb he says might even prove to be the northern end of culture pattern stretching fromMexictI where the great Maya eivili zatinn developed such burial mounds into pyramid temples the flame Examiner FRIDAY JULY 100111 mac GUESS us CLOCKRADIO The time of day this lMon iceberg melts in anybodys guess It might be today the next day or even the day af ter that again but whoever messes correctly at the three dny opening this weekend at the Dominion Tire Store on Bradford Street will win $65 automatic clockradio Manager Len Wadey Ieit sayr it could take up to five dayr to melt from the time it was set up Thursday noon With Mr Wudoy in front of the ice are Bill Keates Bill linger and Jack Miller Must Import Foreign Bees To Make Research Possible GUELPII Ont CPlGnrdon Townsend Ontario Agricultural College professor of aplculture and provincial apie to rilt says it has been found necm sary to import foreign bees to prevent inbreeding of Canadian bees and to facilitate research into bee breeding However bees in Europe are subject to disease in which mite lives inside the breathing tubes of the adult Regulations have prohibited the importation of European bees into North America since 1923 The problem was how to get the bees without bringing in along with them one of Europes worst bee diseases The solution was to import bees in immature stages of growththat is before they become infected DESIGNS motionrot To provide the preaduit beer with the incubation temperature of 95 Fahrenheit degrees they would need to develop while being moved to Canada Dr Smith of the OAC apieultute department constructed port able incubator providing therm ostaticallycontrolled heat for at least 48 hours Then in Juno Dr Smith flew to Englands Rotharnsted Ex perimental Station the worlds oldest agricultural experimental station where several breeder queen bees specially brought in from the Russian Caucasus and Italy were waiting Dr Smith reared offspring of these queens through the egg larval and pupal stages The pupae were then taken from the hive and isolated in an incuba tor where they would bevsale firom infection with the parasitic mite Immature queens were taken from their wax cells and placed in small gelatin cap quencias sides They werethen placed in the portable incubutortogether with some semen from the drones FIDWN T0 LOUISIANA Larvae eggs and drone pupae were included in the shipment Baton Rouge La There mem1 bers of the bee culture research laboratories of the United States department of agriculture arti ficially inseminated the Europ brought over The process still is going on at Baton Rouge and inseminated Mast Poweriul fUTflEESPhflDN Me Polaris armed submarines of the Us Navy cruising belt heath the ice cap at the top of the world keep their ears cocked toward the down east coast of Maine For here on amallpeninsula is their link with the com mander in chief in Washing ton The newmt mostpower tul radio station in the world Cutler navy radio is one of five stations which pass orders from navy headquarters to all its ships at seas But Cutler is particularly important to the Polaris subs the us Navys No weapon of retaliation if someone starts missile war The stations powerful very low frequency signals will pene trate the oceandepths to reach the subs in their element Cutler is about 25 airmiles from the point where the Maine Canadian border comes down to the sea The area is remote Were so damned isolated up here says navy ehiet Swann of Pittsv burgh Pa standing in the sha dow of the worlds largest ra dio transmitter that we dont even get good radio reception m6 SIGHT gt The radio station is an arrest ing sight on aweinspiring geo metric patter drawn on huge canvas of sea and sky It is really two stations one broad msting at very low frenzian and the other in the high ire Guslielmo Marconi was dab and Dr Smith flew by jet to can queenswith the semen queens are expected to arrive at Gudph soon Meanwhile Professor Towns end is making plans There ll demand for the Caucasian queensin one case $500 was offeredand the Ontario Agri culture College will offer the queens to other breeders at $100 each to finance importation costs after they undergo further tests here in connection with hybrid breeding Professor Townsend new strains of bees can be imported every few years from around the world Polaris Substihlted To NeWest Radio Station lbw Freqiico éles VLF on Dec 12 1901 when he made radio history at St Johns Nfld about 750 miles northeast of here or onf picked three faint dots out of the 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