Emory John--Fifty Years A Collector

John, Emory

The brothers found pottery fragments and a buffalo skeleton.

o He found ny kinds vas nadby ghe ancient eharply kn gpns it in decorative effect He of pottery fraguents soae krinkled vhich Indten voman tekingthin rope of clay andsharp bend The angles makevery pretty also found thumbnail impressed ware which 4o made by pressing the thumb mail in the clay vhile itstll Plastic Sevier Lake vas the best field he encountered It ylelded more in avamdty ant also grester variety On one of the mny trips that fmory took me there one is memora 1c He had founibuffalo skeleton fairly well preserved and near 1t but inmore alkaline spot another one but damaged by the acidity of the ground Thday vas blod ng hardj the wind whipped the sand into our faces and agatnstwrlsts as we worked on hmds knees over the bones When we got the skull out sd laid it gemtly on the ground we hat ust time to takeprotograph of it when the ex urcncly thisgasal bone fost siaply melteds thatcrumbled into powlery form while we vatched was in fair shape But the remainder of the skull Fmory brourht it to my office and we had it on exhibit for years It is now in his outedoors muscum The horns show auite 1stinctly Onlyfaw days ago aswrite thisIndian told me that once inwhile buffalo were encounteredby the Indians They er wovld gRang up on one one set of men forcing it tovard anoth set and then another and another until the big beast was fagged out vhen 1t was easyplace the fateful arrow Also Jim Colby tol4 me years ago that in very early days before Deseret was begun he came dows the Sevier by boat looking for beaver sieme That in this region as he mounted the banks he saw in all four Beckwith Family Al rights reserved 2003 Digital imag