"Archaeological
Coverups"
by David Hatcher Childress
NEXUS magazine.
Most of us are familiar with the last scene
in the popular Indiana
Jones archaeological adventure film RAIDERS
OF THE LOST ARK in which
an important historical artefact, the Ark
of the Covenant from the
Temple in Jerusalem, is locked in a crate
and put in a giant
warehouse, never to be seen again, thus
ensuring that no history
books will have to be rewritten and no
history professor will have
to revise the lecture that he has been
giving for the last forty
years.
While the film was fiction, the scene in
which an important ancient
relic is buried in a warehouse is
uncomfortably close to reality for
many researchers. To those who investigate
allegations of
archaeological cover-ups, there are
disturbing indications that the
most important archaeological institute in
the United States, the
Smithsonian Institute, an independent
federal agency, has been
actively suppressing some of the most
interesting and important
archaeological discoveries made in the
Americas.
The Vatican has been long accused of
keeping artefacts and
ancient books in their vast cellars,
without allowing the outside world
access to them. These secret treasures,
often of a controversial
historical or religious nature, are
allegedly suppressed by the
Catholic Church because they might damage
the church's credibility,
or perhaps cast their official texts in
doubt. Sadly, there is
overwhelming evidence that something very
similar is happening with
the Smithsonian Institution.
The cover-up and alleged suppression of
archaeological evidence
began in late 1881 when John Wesley Powell,
the geologist famous for
exploring the Grand Canyon, appointed Cyrus
Thomas as the director
of the Eastern Mound Division of the
Smithsonian Institution's
Bureau of Ethnology.
When Thomas came to the Bureau of Ethnology
he was a
"pronounced believer in the existence
of a race of Mound Builders,
distinct from the American Indians."
However, John Wesley Powell, the director
of the Bureau of
Ethnology, a very sympathetic man toward
the American Indians, had
lived with the peaceful Winnebago Indians
of Wisconsin for many
years as a youth and felt that American
Indians were unfairly
thought of as primitive and savage.
The Smithsonian began to promote the idea
that Native Americans, at
that time being exterminated in the Indian
Wars, were descended from
advanced civilizations and were worthy of
respect and protection.
They also began a program of suppressing
any archaeological evidence
that lent credence to the school of thought
known as Diffusionism, a
school which believes that throughout
history there has been
widespread dispersion of culture and
civilization via contact by
ship and major trade routes.
The Smithsonian opted for the opposite
school, known as
Isolationism. Isolationism holds that most
civilizations are
isolated from each other and that there has
been very little contact
between them, especially those that are
separated by bodies of
water. In this intellectual war that
started in the 1880s, it was
held that even contact between the
civilizations of the Ohio and
Mississippi Valleys were rare, and
certainly these civilizations did
not have any contact with such advanced
cultures as the Mayas,
Toltecs, or Aztecs in Mexico and Central
America. By Old World
standards this is an extreme, and even
ridiculous idea, considering
that the river system reached to the Gulf
of Mexico and these
civilizations were as close as the opposite
shore of the gulf. It
was like saying that cultures in the Black
Sea area could not have
had contact with the Mediterranean.
When the contents of many ancient mounds
and pyramids of the Midwest
were examined, it was shown that the
history of the Mississippi
River Valleys was that of an ancient and
sophisticated culture that
had been in contact with Europe and other
areas. Not only that, the
contents of many mounds revealed burials of
huge men, sometimes
seven or eight feet tall, in full armour
with swords and sometimes
huge treasures.
(Vangard note..>Eastern Indian texts say
that at one time men lived
thousands of years and grew very tall in
direct proportion to their
age, as does the Bible with the comment
"and there were GIANTS in
the earth in those days...")
For instance, when Spiro Mound in Oklahoma
was excavated in the
1930's, a tall man in full armour was
discovered along with a pot of
thousands of pearls and other artefacts,
the largest such treasure
so far documented. The whereabouts of the
man in armour is unknown
and it is quite likely that it eventually
was taken to the
Smithsonian Institution.
In a private conversation with a well-known
historical researcher
(who shall remain nameless), I was told
that a former employee of
the Smithsonian, who was dismissed for
defending the view of
diffusionism in the Americas (i.e. the
heresy that other ancient
civilizations may have visited the shores
of North and South America
during the many millennia before Columbus),
alleged that the
Smithsonian at one time had actually taken
a barge full of unusual
artefacts out into the Atlantic and dumped
them in the ocean.
Though the idea of the Smithsonian'
covering up a valuable
archaeological find is difficult to accept
for some, there is,
sadly, a great deal of evidence to suggest
that the Smithsonian
Institution has knowingly covered up and
'lost' important
archaeological relics. The STONEWATCH
NEWSLETTER of the Gungywamp
Society in Connecticut, which researches
megalithic sites in New
England, had a curious story in their
Winter 1992 issue about stone
coffins discovered in 1892 in Alabama which
were sent to the
Smithsonian Institution and then 'lost'.
According to the
newsletter, researcher Frederick J. Pohl
wrote an intriguing letter
in 1950 to the late Dr. T.C. Lethbridge, a
British archaeologist.
The letter from Pohl stated, "A
professor of geology sent me a
reprint (of the) Smithsonian Institution,
THE CRUMF BURIAL CAVE by
Frank Burns, US Geological Survey, from the
report of the US
National Museum for 1892, pp 451-454, 1984.
In the Crumf Cave,
southern branch of the Warrior River, in
Murphy's Valley, Blount
County, Alabama, accessible from Mobile Bay
by river, were coffins
of wood hollowed out by fire, aided by
stone or copper chisels.
Either of these coffins were taken to the
Smithsonian. They were
about 7.5 feet long, 14" to 18"
wide, 6" to 7" deep. Lids open.
"I wrote recently to the Smithsonian,
and received a reply March
11th from F.M. Setzler, Head Curator of
Department of Anthropology
(He said) 'We have not been able to find
the specimens in our
collections, though records show that they
were received."
David Barron, President of the Gungywamp
Society was eventually told
by the Smithsonian in 1992 that the coffins
were actually wooden
troughs and that they could not be viewed
anyway because they were
housed in an asbestos-contaminated
warehouse. This warehouse was to
be closed for the next ten years and no one
was allowed in except
the Smithsonian personnel!
Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist
and frequent guest on
Johnny Carson's TONIGHT SHOW in the 1960s
(usually with an exotic
animal with a pangolin or a lemur), once
related a curious story
about a letter he received regarding an
engineer who was stationed
on the Aleutian island of Shemya during
World War II. While
building an airstrip, his crew bulldozed a
group of hills and
discovered under several sedimentary layers
what appeared to be
human remains. The Alaskan mound was in
fact a graveyard of
gigantic human remains, consisting of
crania and long leg bones.
The crania measured from 22 to 24 inches
from base to crown. Since
an adult skull normally measures about
eight inches from back to
front, such a large crania would imply an
immense size for a
normally proportioned human. Furthermore,
every skull was said to
have been neatly trepanned (a process of
cutting a hole in the upper
portion of the skull).
In fact, the habit of flattening the skull
of an infant and forcing
it to grow in an elongated shape was a
practice used by ancient
Peruvians, the Mayas, and the Flathead
Indians of Montana. Sanderson
tried to gather further proof, eventually
receiving a letter from
another member of the unit who confirmed
the report. The letters
both indicated that the Smithsonian
Institution had collected the
remains, yet nothing else was heard.
Sanderson seemed convinced
that the Smithsonian Institution had
received the bizarre relics,
but wondered why they would not release the
data. He asks, "...is
it that these people cannot face rewriting
all the textbooks?"
In 1944 an accidental discovery of an even
more controversial nature
was made by Waldemar Julsrud at Acambaro,
Mexico. Acambaro is in
the state of Guanajuato, 175 miles
northwest of Mexico City. The
strange archaeological site there yielded
over 33,500 objects of
ceramic;stone, including jade; and knives
of obsidian (sharper than
steel and still used today in heart
surgery). Jalsrud, a prominent
local German merchant, also found statues
ranging from less than an
inch to six feet in length depicting great
reptiles, some of them in
ACTIVE ASSOCIATION with humans - generally
eating them, but in some
bizarre statuettes an erotic association
was indicated. To
observers many of these creatures resembled
dinosaurs.
Jalsrud crammed this collection into twelve
rooms of his expanded
house. There startling representations of
Negroes, Orientals, and
bearded Caucasians were included as were
motifs of Egyptians,
Sumerian and other ancient non-hemispheric
civilizations, as well as
portrayals of Bigfoot and aquatic
monsterlike creatures, weird
human-animal mixtures, and a host of other
inexplicable creations.
Teeth from an extinct Ice Age horse, the
skeleton of a mammoth, and
a number of human skulls were found at the
same site as the ceramic
artefacts.
Radio-carbon dating in the laboratories of
the University of
Pennsylvania and additional tests using the
thermoluminescence
method of dating pottery were performed to
determine the age of the
objects. Results indicated the objects were
made about 6,500 years
ago, around 4,500 BC. A team of experts at
another university,
shown Jalrud's half-dozen samples but
unaware of their origin, ruled
out the possibility that they could have
been modern reproductions.
However, they fell silent when told of
their controversial source.
In 1952, in an effort to debunk this weird
collection which was
gaining a certain amount of fame, American
archaeologist Charles C.
DiPeso claimed to have minutely examined
the then 32,000 pieces
within not more than four hours spent at
the home of Julsrud. In a
forthcoming book, long delayed by
continuing developments in his
investigation, archaeological investigator
John H. Tierney, who has
lectured on the case for decades, points
out that to have done that
DiPeso would have had to have inspected 133
pieces per minute
steadily for four hours, whereas in
actuality, it would have
required weeks merely to have separated the
massive jumble of
exhibits and arranged them properly for a
valid evaluation.
Tierney, who collaborated with the later
Professor Hapgood, the late
William N. Russell, and others in the
investigation, charges that
the Smithsonian Institution and other
archaeological authorities
conducted a campaign of disinformation
against the discoveries. The
Smithsonian had, early in the controversy,
dismissed the entire
Acambaro collection as an elaborate hoax.
Also, utilizing the
Freedom of Information Act, Tierney
discovered that practically the
entirety of the Smithsonian's Julsrud case
files are missing.
After two expeditions to the site in 1955
and 1968, Professor
Charles Hapgood, a professor of history and
anthropology at the
University of New Hampshire, recorded the
results of his 18-year
investigation of Acambaro in a privately
printed book entitled
MYSTERY IN ACAMBARO. Hapgood was initially
an open-minded skeptic
concerning the collection but became a
believer after his first
visit in 1955, at which time he witnessed
some of the figures being
excavated and even dictated to the diggers
where he wanted them to
dig.
Adding to the mind-boggling aspects of this
controversy is the fact
that the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia
e Historia, through the
late Director of PreHispanic Monuments, Dr.
Eduardo Noguera, (who,
as head of an official investigating team
at the site, issued a
report which Tierney will be publishing),
admitted "the apparent
scientific legality with which these
objects were found." Despite
evidence of their own eyes, however,
officials declared that because
of the objects 'fantastic' nature, they had
to have been a hoax
played on Julsrud!
A disappointed but ever-hopeful Julsrud
died. His house was sold
and the collection put in storage. The
collection is not currently
open to the public.
Perhaps the most amazing suppression of all
is the excavation of an
Egyptian tomb by the Smithsonian itself in
Arizona. A lengthy front
page story of the PHOENIX GAZETTE on 5
April 1909 (follows this
article), gave a highly detailed report of
the discovery and
excavation of a rock-cut vault by an
expedition led by a Professor
S.A. Jordan of the Smithsonian. The
Smithsonian, however, claims to
have absolutely no knowledge of the
discovery or its discoverers.
The World Explorers Club decided to check
on this story by calling
the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., though
we felt there was little
chance of getting any real information.
After speaking briefly to
an operator, we were transferred to a
Smithsonian staff
archaeologist, and a woman's voice came on
the phone and identified
herself.
I told her that I was investigating a story
from a 1909 Phoenix
newspaper article about the Smithsonian
Institution's having
excavated rock-cut vaults in the Grand
Canyon where Egyptian
artefacts had been discovered, and whether
the Smithsonian
Institution could give me any more
information on the subject.
"Well, the first thing I can tell you,
before we go any further,"
she said, "is that no Egyptian
artefacts of any kind have ever been
found in North or South America. Therefore,
I can tell you that the
Smithsonian Institute has never been
involved in any such
excavations." She was quite helpful
and polite but, in the end,
knew nothing. Neither she nor anyone else
with whom I spoke could
find any record of the discovery or either
G.E. Kinkaid and
Professor S.A. Jordan.
While it cannot be discounted that the
entire story is an elaborate
newspaper hoax, the fact that it was on the
front page, named the
prestigious Smithsonian Institution, and
gave a highly detailed
story that went on for several pages, lends
a great deal to its
credibility. It is hard to believe such a
story could have come out
of thin air.
Is the Smithsonian Institution covering up
an archaeological
discovery of immense importance? If this
story is true it would
radically change the current view that
there was no transoceanic
contact in pre-Columbian times, and that
all American Indians, on
both continents, are descended from Ice Age
explorers who came
across the Bering Strait. (Any information
on G.E. Kinkaid and
Professor S.A. Jordan, or their alleged
discoveries, that readers
may have would be greatly
appreciated.....write to Childress at the
World Explorers Club at the above address.)
Is the idea that ancient Egyptians came to
the Arizona area in the
ancient past so objectionable and
preposterous that it must be
covered up? Perhaps the Smithsonian
Institution is more interested
in maintaining the status quo than rocking
the boat with astonishing
new discoveries that overturn previously
accepted academic
teachings.
Historian and linguist Carl Hart, editor of
WORLD EXPLORER, then
obtained a hiker's map of the Grand Canyon
from a bookstore in
Chicago. Poring over the map, we were
amazed to see that much of
the area on the north side of the canyon
has Egyptian names. The
area around Ninety-four Mile Creek and
Trinity Creek had areas (rock
formations, apparently) with names like
Tower of Set, Tower of Ra,
Horus Temple, Osiris Temple, and Isis
Temple. In the Haunted Canyon
area were such names as the Cheops Pyramid,
the Buddha Cloister,
Buddha Temple, Manu Temple and Shiva
Temple. Was there any
relationship between these places and the
alleged Egyptian
discoveries in the Grand Canyon?
We called a state archaeologist at the
Grand Canyon, and were told
that the early explorers had just liked
Egyptian and Hindu names,
but that it was true that this area was off
limits to hikers or
other visitors, "because of dangerous
caves."
Indeed, this entire area with the Egyptian
and Hindu place names in
the Grand Canyon is a forbidden zone - no
one is allowed into this
large area.
We could only conclude that this was the
area where the vaults were
located. Yet today, this area is curiously
off-limits to all hikers
and even, in large part, park personnel.
I believe that the discerning reader will
see that if only a small
part of the "Smithsoniangate"
evidence is true, then our most
hallowed archaeological institution has
been actively involved in
suppressing evidence for advanced American
cultures, evidence for
ancient voyages of various cultures to
North America, evidence for
anomalistic giants and other oddball
artefacts, and evidence that
tends to disprove the official dogma that
is now the history of
North America.
The Smithsonian's Board of Regents still
refuses to open its
meetings to the news media or the public.
If Americans were ever
allowed inside the 'nation's attic', as the
Smithsonian has been
called, what skeletons might they find?
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from the front page of THE PHOENIX GAZETTE
of April 5th, 1909
EXPLORATIONS IN GRAND CANYON
Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern being
brought to light
Jordan is enthused
Remarkable finds indicate ancient people
migrated from Orient
The latest news of the progress of the
explorations of what is now
regarded by scientists as not only the
oldest archaeological
discovery in the United States, but one of
the most valuable in the
world, which was mentioned some time ago in
the Gazette, was brought
to the city yesterday by G.E. Kinkaid, the
explorer who found the
great underground citadel of the Grand
Canyon during a trip from
Green River, Wyoming, down the Colorado, in
a wooden boat, to Yuma,
several months ago.
According to the story related to the
Gazette by Mr. Kinkaid, the
archaeologists of the Smithsonian
Institute, which is financing the
expeditions, have made discoveries which
almost conclusively prove
that the race which inhabited this
mysterious cavern, hewn in solid
rock by human hands, was of oriental
origin, possibly from Egypt,
tracing back to Ramses. If their theories
are borne out by the
translation of the tablets engraved with
hieroglyphics, the mystery
of the prehistoric peoples of North
America, their ancient arts, who
they were and whence they came, will be
solved. Egypt and the Nile,
and Arizona and the Colorado will be linked
by a historical chain
running back to ages which staggers the
wildest fancy of the
fictionist.
A Thorough Examination
Under the direction of Prof. S. A. Jordan,
the Smithsonian Institute
is now prosecuting the most thorough
explorations, which will be
continued until the last link in the chain
is forged. Nearly a mile
long tunnel underground, about 1480 feet
below the surface, the
long main passage has been delved into, to
find another mammoth
chamber from which radiates scores of
passageways, like the spokes
of a wheel.
Several hundred rooms have been discovered,
reached by passageways
running from the main passage, one of them
having been explored for
854 feet and another 634 feet. The recent
finds include articles
which have never been known as native to
this country, and doubtless
they had their origin in the orient. War
weapons, copper
instruments, sharp-edged and hard as steel,
indicate the high state
of civilization reached by these strange
people. So interested have
the scientists become that preparations are
being made to equip the
camp for extensive studies, and the force
will be increased to
thirty or forty persons.
Mr. Kinkaid's Report
Mr. Kinkaid was the first white child born
in Idaho and has been an
explorer and hunter all his life, thirty
years having been in the
service of the Smithsonian Institute. Even
briefly recounted, his
history sounds fabulous, almost grotesque.
"First, I would impress that the
cavern is nearly inaccessible. The
entrance is 1,486 feet down the sheer
canyon wall. It is located on
government land and no visitor will be
allowed there under penalty
of trespass. The scientists wish to work
unmolested, without fear
of archaeological discoveries being
disturbed by curio or relic
hunters.
A trip there would be fruitless, and the
visitor would be sent on
his way. The story of how I found the
cavern has been related, but
in a paragraph: I was journeying down the
Colorado river in a boat,
alone, looking for mineral. Some forty-two
miles up the river from
the El Tovar Crystal canyon, I saw on the
east wall, stains in the
sedimentary formation about 2,000 feet
above the river bed. There
was no trail to this point, but I finally
reached it with great
difficulty.
Above a shelf which hid it from view from
the river, was the mouth
of the cave. There are steps leading from
this entrance some thirty
yards to what was, at the time the cavern
was inhabited, the level
of the river. When I saw the chisel marks
on the wall inside the
entrance, I became interested, securing my
gun and went in. During
that trip I went back several hundred feet
along the main passage
till I came to the crypt in which I
discovered the mummies. One of
these I stood up and photographed by
flashlight. I gathered a
number of relics, which I carried down the
Colorado to Yuma, from
whence I shipped them to Washington with
details of the discovery.
Following this, the explorations were
undertaken.
The Passages
"The main passageway is about 12 feet
wide, narrowing to nine feet
toward the farther end. About 57 feet from
the entrance, the first
side-passages branch off to the right and
left, along which, on both
sides, are a number of rooms about the size
of ordinary living rooms
of today, though some are 30 by 40 feet
square. These are entered
by oval-shaped doors and are ventilated by
round air spaces through
the walls into the passages. The walls are
about three feet six
inches in thickness.
The passages are chiseled or hewn as
straight as could be laid out
by an engineer. The ceilings of many of the
rooms converge to a
center. The side-passages near the entrance
run at a sharp angle
from the main hall, but toward the rear
they gradually reach a right
angle in direction.
The Shrine
"Over a hundred feet from the entrance
is the cross-hall, several
hundred feet long, in which are found the
idol, or image, of the
people's god, sitting cross-legged, with a
lotus flower or lily in
each hand. The cast of the face is
oriental, and the carving this
cavern. The idol almost resembles Buddha,
though the scientists are
not certain as to what religious worship it
represents. Taking into
consideration everything found thus far, it
is possible that this
worship most resembles the ancient people
of Tibet.
Surrounding this idol are smaller images,
some very beautiful in
form; others crooked-necked and distorted
shapes, symbolical,
probably, of good and evil. There are two
large cactus with
protruding arms, one on each side of the
dais on which the god
squats. All this is carved out of hard rock
resembling marble. In
the opposite corner of this cross-hall were
found tools of all
descriptions, made of copper. These people
undoubtedly knew the
lost art of hardening this metal, which has
been sought by chemicals
for centuries without result. On a bench
running around the
workroom was some charcoal and other
material probably used in the
process. There is also slag and stuff
similar to matte, showing
that these ancients smelted ores, but so
far no trace of where or
how this was done has been discovered, nor
the origin of the ore.
"Among the other finds are vases or
urns and cups of copper and
gold, made very artistic in design. The
pottery work includes
enameled ware and glazed vessels. Another
passageway leads to
granaries such as are found in the oriental
temples. They contain
seeds of various kinds. One very large
storehouse has not yet been
entered, as it is twelve feet high and can
be reached only from
above. Two copper hooks extend on the edge,
which indicates that
some sort of ladder was attached. These
granaries are rounded, as
the materials of which they are
constructed, I think, is a very hard
cement. A gray metal is also found in this
cavern, which puzzles
the scientists, for its identity has not
been established. It
resembles platinum. Strewn promiscuously
over the floor everywhere
are what people call "cats eyes', a
yellow stone of no great value.
Each one is engraved with the head of the
Malay type.
The Hieroglyphics
"On all the urns, or walls over
doorways , and tablets of stone
which were found by the image are the
mysterious hieroglyphics, the
key to which the Smithsonian Institute
hopes yet to discover. The
engraving on the tables probably has
something to do with the
religion of the people. Similar
hieroglyphics have been found in
southern Arizona. Among the pictorial
writings, only two animals
are found. One is of prehistoric type.
The Crypt
"The tomb or crypt in which the
mummies were found is one of the
largest of the chambers, the walls slanting
back at an angle of
about 35 degrees. On these are tiers of
mummies, each one occupying
a separate hewn shelf. At the head of each
is a small bench, on
which is found copper cups and pieces of
broken swords. Some of the
mummies are covered with clay, and all are
wrapped in a bark fabric.
The urns or cups on the lower tiers are
crude, while as the higher
shelves are reached, the urns are finer in
design, showing a later
stage of civilization. It is worthy of note
that all the mummies
examined so far have proved to be male, no
children or females being
buried here. This leads to the belief that
this exterior section
was the warriors' barracks.
"Among the discoveries no bones of
animals have been found, no
skins, no clothing, no bedding. Many of the
rooms are bare but for
water vessels. One room, about 40 by 700
feet, was probably the
main dining hall, for cooking utensils are
found here. What these
people lived on is a problem, though it is
presumed that they came
south in the winter and farmed in the
valleys, going back north in
the summer.
Upwards of 50,000 people could have lived
in the caverns
comfortably. One theory is that the present
Indian tribes found in
Arizona are descendants of the serfs or
slaves of the people which
inhabited the cave. Undoubtedly a good many
thousands of years
before the Christian era, a people lived
here which reached a high
stage of civilization. The chronology of
human history is full of
gaps. Professor Jordan is much enthused
over the discoveries and
believes that the find will prove of
incalculable value in
archaeological work.
"One thing I have not spoken of, may
be of interest. There is one
chamber of the passageway to which is not
ventilated, and when we
approached it a deadly, snaky smell struck
us. Our light would not
penetrate the gloom, and until stronger
ones are available we will
not know what the chamber contains. Some
say snakes, but other
boo-hoo this idea and think it may contain
a deadly gas or chemicals
used by the ancients. No sounds are heard,
but it smells snaky just
the same. The whole underground
installation gives one of shaky
nerves the creeps. The gloom is like a
weight on one's shoulders,
and our flashlights and candles only make
the darkness blacker.
Imagination can revel in conjectures and
ungodly daydreams back
through the ages that have elapsed till the
mind reels dizzily in
space."
An Indian Legend
In connection with this story, it is
notable that among the Hopi
Indians the tradition is told that their
ancestors once lived in an
underworld in the Grand Canyon till
dissension arose between the
good and the bad, the people of one heart
and the people of two
hearts. Machetto, who was their chief,
counseled them to leave the
underworld, but there was no way out. The
chief then caused a tree
to grow up and pierce the roof of the
underworld, and then the
people of one heart climbed out. They
tarried by Paisisvai (Red
River), which is the Colorado, and grew
grain and corn.
They sent out a message to the Temple of
the Sun, asking the
blessing of peace, good will and rain for
people of one heart. That
messenger never returned, but today at the
Hopi villages at sundown
can be seen the old men of the tribe out on
the housetops gazing
toward the sun, looking for the messenger.
When he returns, their
lands and ancient dwelling place will be
restored to them. That is
the tradition.
Among the engravings of animals in the cave
is seen the image of a
heart over the spot where it is located.
The legend was learned by
W.E. Rollins, the artist, during a year
spent with the Hopi Indians.
There are two theories of the origin of the
Egyptians. One is that
they came from Asia; another that the
racial cradle was in the upper
Nile region. Heeren, an Egyptologist,
believed in the Indian origin
of the Egyptians. The discoveries in the
Grand Canyon may throw
further light on human evolution and
prehistoric ages.