Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1911 — INDIAN CARVINGS ON A TREE [ARTICLE]

INDIAN CARVINGS ON A TREE

Missouri Woodmen Make Peculiar Discoveries in Felling an Old Oak —Work of Chlckasaws. Exeter, Mo. —While woodmen were cutting timber on Indian creek the other day a large oak tree was felled that proved to be historic 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 np were pictures of the rising sun with an Indian kneeling, a flying eagle, a turtle lying on its back and a plctiye 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 Chlckasaws.