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LOTS OF WORK, TOO Collecting Artifacts Fun FROM PAGE ONE 6 'big way by helping colleges, universities and museums on digs. caves had small openings, about 18 Inches across. donne purpose was to slow. the enemy. He had to crawl in, He couldn't come In armed.

He. had get: in and then a'r himself." Some caves were hundreds of feet down from the rim and hundreds of feet up from the canyon floor. Many were open caves. "Terrible Sound" "Ve let ourselves down ropes most 'of the time," he said. Other times: they propped up tall tree trunks ladders, He found "a lot Tol baskets and things" in one 1,000 feet from the Stop and the same from the bottom: where they had to come down and then climb up a tree trunk.

"You never know what you'll find when you go cave or start digging," he sald. Once he almost wished he hadn't found a cave. This "terrible came through the cave while he was working on a ledge and he almost fell off. "It almost made me hurt myself. I almost fell over backward.

If I had known it was only a buzzard. but didn't. "This -Thing" "It was flying through the cave, screaming, Its wings were brushing the sides of the cave. Then I saw this huge thing coming at me," make Another time, a mountain lion bounded right past him as was about to enter a cave. It scared him, but he went on in "Mountain lions never.

hurt you. They just scare you." He got a much bigger scare the night he was digging in a cave with a siorm "raging full blast" outside. was following digging it in around. this gopher hole, uncovered I had just a skeleton when lightning stuck and thunder shook everything. Right then the gopher jumped out of his hole and up my britches leg.

I left." Perishable Items, reed cigarette filters and holders, were found these caves where the dry air preserved them for centuries. The extinct reed' showed up in many forms. Fenn has a massive collection of arrowheads 'and other flint pieces, but the thing that catches the eye Is the point sitting right where it should be on the end of an arrow. Few white, men have seen the original ancient arrowhead there. point is sinew wrapped on a hardwood foreshaft that fits into a reed shaft," Fenn explained.

"Feathers on the end of the shaft are sinew wrapped, too." A His tomahawks, which are complete with handles, use the same reed for holding the head on the handle. Sinew jvrappings and sometimes a dab of pitch kept them on as did a wedge in some types. The same reed appears to have been the material used Judge Airs Eight Pleas Bonds were set for eight persons who pleaded innocent to charges Friday before Judge Denzil Bevers, County Court-atLaw No. 2. Included were Hirs.

Mary Walker Bolton, 31, of 2111-A 13th aggravated assault on al child, $300 bond: Wendell T. Ashley, 35, of 350S 44th two; charges of aggravated assault, $250 bond on cach Antonio G. Jimenez, of 309 E. Purdue, DWT, $500 bond: Teodoro S. Rins, 23, of 2408 E.

Auburn, shoplifting. $350. Also Laura Stacey Ward, 2S. of 500 E. Broadway, two of possession of dangerous charges, drugs, $900 total bond: Jamesi Henry Alexander, 35, of 500 E.

Broadway, two charges of possession of dangerous $900 total bond, Chuck Hogan, 20, of 2305 (Rear) 10th checki violation, $250: and Sid C. Woodard, 45, of 2117-B Emory. check law violation, $250. Woodward first pleaded nolon contendere (no contest! but was. allowed to withdraw that plea.

Agency Slates Transfer With the Federa: Building dedicated recently and housing: 43 agencies, one agency Is moving out. The Geological Survey office of the Department of on the fourth floor, has ended its: survey and plans to vacate the office Wednesday. The office was formed to set up study methods for evaluating. Areas in the Ogalaia formations: that might be favorable for recharge using imported water. After one and a half years in operation the proposed five year project was ended.

Project chief, and hydrologist, Clyde Wilson said he didn't know! exactly why the project was stopped but said, "I could he because they feel studies would be better elsewhere." The program was organized in cooperation with U. Geological Survey and the Texas Water Department. Along four other! survey employes will be: transferred to other projects. Wilson said he will move to El Faso. WHERE YOU ALWAYS BUY THE BEST FOR LESS GIBSON'S BUILDING SUPPLY CENTER 3117 Avenue Phone No.

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"all too huge ta move." He did tached to the sharp point. manage to bring home a few Medals Found trinkets. The collection far The Indian thing hit him hard1 the usual with about every surpasses when he returned to this country early Pueblo Indians used in Arizona. 1960 and was stationed in their day to day existence. loads into more modern "I helicopter," New over the canyons in a gear af the later centuries Indian he said.

"You could beaded materials and trade with of see all ruins." the caves and the outline coming that told of Digging was a daylight to dark beads and medals his metals. white man and thing for several days at a time. the of the A "Sometimes I'd start at eight tomahawk Hudson Bay elone morning and work right is twofold, serving as through until noon the next both: a pipe and a thing." Russian A necklace has allocation was a part of the job. "hunting day." Photographing finds in another medal dated 1675. Elaborate Alarm System a silver George His big collection began with Washington Peace Medal dated museum rejects (1789 and a third the Cross of museums there turn down Lorraine.

beautiful things because they having is not enough for have no space" and he went Just Fenn. He has to know what he has found, what it was used for from He lot behind when he and how long ago. His books came home to Texas. A part of come in handy for things he digs what he brought is on loan to the niup that he can't figure out. Museum at Texas Tech.

He "Beautiful He started a small foundry "four found one unknown to be a while stationed at Reese Air strand cord" as Force Base and purchased a A RARE FIND An effigy jar from Casas Grande in Southern Arizona is a rare piece for a collector, but rare Indian artifacis are common with Forrest pot with food and a pair of tongs inside. Bones are another big item; showing up in jewelry, decoratons and tools or found just where they were tossed after an Indian meal. "They made different tools from different bones, like they'd spilt the leg bone of a wolf or coyote and make two awls. Or they'd use deer or some other animal's bones for other tools." Elk Teeth Important Bones also went into jewelry as did shell and pretty rocks. Bones were carved, sometimes inset with jet, shell or turquoise.

"Imitation elk tooth decorates some of Fenn's finds. "It be (the Indian) couldn't catch his clk elk teeth were important for cetrain things he just carved one from bone." ITis very, carly artifacts, as early B.C., were made by the Hohokam Indians I Southern Arizona. ile "The had lots Hohokam of time was a farmer, to "black on while pottery of ancient times, coming from the Anasazi, an Indian word meaning "Old His pieces include rare pottery lanterns that burned bear grease and were shaped like animals, Other rarities include a number of dippers or ladles, some with "baby rattle" handles. Pot smoothers, he said, are handed down from generation to! generation. Time consumed shaping a rock into the proper! Jangles made them family treasures.

He found the ancestors of the had the same style hundreds of years ago as the Hopi do today. His range 500 years apart and "still attain the same style." "Jigsaw Puzzle" Fenn pointed out that the always had an open space in the design "so the spirit could get out" and not be trapped in the' pot. Pottery pieces he finds often: glue back into a new shape and a new post for his collections. He has found a good number whole, but a favorite came in 200 pieces and he had to play jigsaw puzzle; for days to see what he had His "hobby its earliest. beginning when he "picked arrowheads while a Boy Scout" in Temple.

He "dug all over" Europe, while stationed there with 1 the Air Force. An olive jar he up at Pompeii is in museum there, Finds Marble Statue He also "did some digging; around the old Roman cities of jewelry and things." illustrated in medicine, "written byjhome in Lubbock. So when he Seeds found in pols, pro- Gen. Crook's aide." He learned retired after a stint in Vietnam, tected from the elements and about his "protective rattle" he came back to Lubbock. things that would ent them after finding one in a museum.

Friends worry about his col-1 some 900 years, at least. "could Many of his pieces show up in lection, but he doesn't planted and writings They on had ancient "beautiful Theres' no open market for grow," they are so well preserv-. a and such. Besides, he has ed. philosophy," he he said of the this elaborate alarm system.

Or to" the "got of insight in- Enjoys Trading people Dryness also lived way they thought and! He "goes on all the digs" he sampics of fabric open ruins by of digging underneath the can now, but the pickings are weave, tightly. woven caves. their pueblos and on the South Plains comrough homespun and patterns pared to what he found in resembling macrame, the knot- "When they did something. Arizona, Wyoming, New Mexico: tying art that- began in many lustrating right." he said, il-land South Texas. tallands as soon as man found a that had with an old necklace Trading is a pretty big thing string would de into a pattern.

all handmade." "6,700 argillite beads, with him now. He has some "It's all: cotton or He surplus or things he isn't too atFenn said. "Wool didn't show up stone workings on attached to that have been swaptraced the until the sheep came with the du just tomahaws, "Rough would ped for some of the "anything! Spaniards." other parts as well, but worked Western America" that he sample labrics date way for looks as well. It had to bellects. belore the advent of the Con- or pride." The "anything" includes Inquistadores.

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