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AUGUST 14, 1K)3.
The Commoner.
A Collection of Human Skulls.
Prof. W. H. Holmes, curator of an
thropology of the National Museum,
has lust received from Harvard uni
versity a collection of skulls, part of
& still larger collection gathered by the
expedition which, about one year ago,
that university sent to the South Sea
islands. The skulls received at the
National Museum are all from Borneo,
where they were obtained by the ex
pedition from the Dyak head-hunters,
of the interior of that IsJana. The
skulls are a genuine rarity, and the
first examples of a most singular art
that have ever reached the National
Museum. The different Dyak tribes of
the island of Borneo are eternally at
feud with one another, and in their
raids, forays, and battles, they make
a practice of decapitating their ene
mies. These they regard as trophies,
viewing them in the same light in
which the North American Indian
braves once looked upon the taking of
scalps; namely, as the visible evi
dences of a warrior's prowess and
courage in the eyes of his fellow
tribesmen. When in a foray or bat
tle a Dyak warrior takes a number of
heads he buries them for a time, un
til the flesh and soft parts have com
pletely disappeared, when they are re
moved from the earth, carefullv
cleaned, and polished, and set away
to dry. After this is accomplished, the
Dyak warrior, equipped with dhierenl
vegetable pigments and bone imple
ments, proceeds to engrave upor the
ekulls a most elaborate and intrlcata
design, consisting of chevrons, "herr
ing bones," crosses, and a world of
.other patterns, which when completed
render the skull a work of art in ev
ery sense of the term.
Being the heads of their enemies,
and regarded as trophies of war, it is
text to impossible for a white man,
either European or American, to gain
possession of one of them, and it Is
for this reason that they are to be
seen only in small numbers in a few
of the great museums of Europe and
America. The Harvard expedition ap
pears to have been unusually success
ful in their quest for Dyak skulls, and
the National ' Museum is to be con
gratulated upon so choice and rare ar.
acquisition. Washington Post
Mount Ranier,
A telegram to the St Louis Post
Dispatch under date of; Tacoma, Wash ,
July 25, says: Dr. W. R. Betts A
New Orleans and H. M. Sarvant of Ta
coma have made a thrilling ascent of
Mount Ranier, known by the Indians
as Mount Tacoma, 14,444 feet above
the level of the sea. Dr. Betts read
that the mountain had not been as
cended for four years on account of
great breaks in ice walls above Gib
raltar rock. Old guides had gone to
Gibraltar rock for several seasons,
only to turn back without reaching
the top, and Dr. Betts was determined
to disprove the theory that the moun
tain now is unscalable.
After previously carrying food to
Camp Muir, the climbers started Sun
day evening to make the ascent They
camped at Muir until daybreak, but
the weather was bitterly cold, making
sleep impossible. At 3 a. m. they "dis
carded all clothing possible, and, tak
ing only alpenstocks and cameras,
started. Reaching the glaciers above
Gibraltar, they were compelled to use
ropes and to cut 500 steps In the Ice
"with a hatchet in making a zigzag
journey up the ice slopes and around
crevasses. They found avalanches
bad carried away the great rock ledgo
above Gibraltar, on which previous
climbers had depended in ascending
one of the steepest places. Investiga
tion showed there has been no re
cent volcanic activity, as supposed.
The party reached Paradise valley at
B o'clock Monday night, twenty-four
hours after commencing the ascent
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