Finger Bones/Ring Discovery

Westernlegend1 · Jul 18, 2009

Finger Bones/ Ring Discovery
There were a couple of posts about finding bodies or fingers inside rings in the past. Well going thru my box of clippings I actually found a clipping that shows some finds from Custer’s Battlefield in Montana. I guess they will never know the name of the wearer of the wedding band. Thought this might be of interest due to actual pictures are included.

sectshun8 · Jul 18, 2009

Interesting post WL, thanks for sharing! :yes:

Westernlegend1 · Jul 19, 2009

This hunt was conducted by metal detecting folks back in 1984 to help learn more about the battle of the Little Big Horn. The ring with finger bone was actually dug by a woman detectorist. According to post-battlefield reports by the Sioux Indians, after the majority of the soldiers were killed, squaws from the main camp hunted down the mortally wounded troopers and extracted a heavy price upon them, this involved a long slow dismemberment!

DougF · Jul 19, 2009

I think they may have made a PBS show about this - I remember they used the finds to reconstruct the battle, based on the location of various artifacts. Thanks for posting.

RickO · Jul 19, 2009

Wow...kinda macabre... but no doubt about it happening. I would hate to find a whole cache of them... yik, serial killer collection. RickO

FishingGodBilly · Jul 19, 2009

Wow thats crazy! Thanks for posting that!

Westernlegend1 · Jul 19, 2009

They made and worn whole necklaces of them. Called Cheyenne Finger Necklaces.

paleo56 · Jul 19, 2009

finger bones

if you look closely at the atricle,you will see that the excavations where under the management of Rich Brown co-director of the excavations and a Ph.D candidate in archaeology at the University in Alberta,Canada.With the help from volunteers,metal detectorist where under the supervision of an archaeologist,metal detectorist just can't show up and think they are going to start digging,it more than likely it took Mr. Brown a year on more to get permission to do these excavations,the Custer battle fields are a national park,you will need a permit to do most any thing in a national park,as far the finger bone it could have been disturbed by rodents,rodents will move a lot of artifacts around,but it could have been removed by the squaws,if it was removed by squaws it would have not been found on the site,this we will never know only conjecture Thanks! for the post westernlegend,,,Dave Hall,Alton,IL.

Boomer · Jul 31, 2009

Holy cow, finger neclaces!? Please tell me those round things are medicine bags.

Rebel · Jul 31, 2009

"Please tell me those round things are medicine bags"

They are now.

Joebarfly · Jul 31, 2009

I recently read "A terrible Glory" about the events leading up to Custer's last stand. Here is the Amazon link.

http://www.amazon.com/Terrible-Glor...7474/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1249050895&sr=8-3

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