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The Dental Museum

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
June
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Dental museum, although seldom visited by students of the various departments, is, nevertheless, an important collection of curios. The collection formerly consisted mainly of bones of the human body, but lately additions have been made in the nature o Indian relies and other articles of interest. The late Dr. Ford laid the founda tion for this museum by presenting to the dental department his valuable collection of skulls and bones. Of the former, there are no less than two hundred, carefully labeled and arranged according to the age of the person to whom they belonged. Mr. Ford's long connection with the medical department enabled him to get a most excellent collection of the organs of the body. Prominent among the late additions to the curios is a model of the head of a Modoc chief, "Shock Nasty Jim," which was the gift of J. C. Leonard, of Elko, Nevada. The model is the work of a medicine man, who belonged to the tribe of which this chief was leader. With this piece of Indian mechanism was also presented a stone taken from the neck of Egan, another chief who was killed by one of his race. The stone is said to have killed one hundred persons, and the truth is verified by a notch for each person slain. Another relie of interest is a stone used by "Indian Jim" to sharpen his scalping knife, preparatory to a raid on the whites.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News