Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1911 — INDIAN CARVINGS ON A TREE [ARTICLE]

INDIAN CARVINGS ON A TREE

Missouri Woodmen Make Peculiar Discoveries in Folling 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 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 up were pic tures of the rising sun wits an Indian kneeling, a flying eagle, a turtle lying on ita back and a picture of a snake. Morse than a dosen 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 Chickaaaws.