Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1911 — INDIAN CARVINGS ON A TREE [ARTICLE]

INDIAN CARVINGS ON A TREE

Missouri Woodmen Make Peouliar Discoveries in Felling an Old Oak —Work of Chickasaws. Exeter, Mo. —While woodmen were cutting timber on Indian creek the other day a large oak tree was felled that proved to be histpric as well as an old Indian landmark. A picture of an Indian with bow and arrow pointing at a running deer was carved in the bark of the tree near the ground, while higher up were pictures of the rising sun with an Indlan kneeling, a flying eagle, a turtle lying og Its back and a picture of a snake. More than a dozen arrows were embedded in the tree, where they had been shot many years ago. From the character of the carving it Is thought to be the work of Chickasaws.