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THE SIGNAL
May 22, 1984
Rudy Busto
Peabody Museum
Harvard University
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Dear Rudy:
I would like to thank you sincerely for the
invaluable help you gave me when I visited the Peabody
Museum two weeks ago in search of information about
Bowers Cave. The information that I was able to collect
from the files has already been extremely helpful in
answering a .number of questions about the discovery of
the cave and the artifacts.
Under a separate letter I am ordering some prints
of the negatives you showed me from Ms. Linton Watts
in the photo archives department. After doing some _
final research, I plan to do a feature story soon on
this local Indian cave. I plan to visit the Bowers
Museum in Santa Ana, California, this weekend to see
the exhibit of the artifacts which have been loaned
from the Peabody Museum.
I would like to ask a favor if you might have
some spare time in the near future to help solve a
mystery: to locate the missing sunstick. Originally,
there were four sunsticks (stone clubs) which were
sold to the Peabody Museum in the last century. When
I visited the Peabody Museum in September, 1979, I
saw two of them in the display case: #39261 and #39264.
I was told at that time that one had been traded to a
museum in Australia and that the fourth one had been
lost. When Robert Heizer studied these artifacts in
1963, he mentioned a third sunstick, #39262. I presume
the missing one is #39263. You showed me a negative
which pictured all four sunsticks at once and you said
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