of places he’s never been. He’ll find himself somewhere deep in China, gazing at a Buddhist temple, posing as if he’s being photographed. Or sometimes he’s on Easter Island, near its carved human figures with oversized heads, outside centuries-old burial caves, almost like he’s unearthing something. Then he wakes and realizes none of it was real. He’s never visited China, never seen Easter Island.
Carpenter decided he needed to see the artifacts for himself and thought up a way in: He would tag along on a follow-up visit with one of the agents who’d been to Miller’s house before. “A bit of a ruse,” Carpenter told me. On November 1, the two agents drove an hour south past farms and cornfields to Moscow, a tiny, unincorporated township in Rush County. They pulled into Miller’s driveway. Just past its curve sat a large, two-story beige stone home. An old white farmhouse stood out back.
An anonymous tip led Agent Tim Carpenter of the FBI’s Art Theft Program to investigate. He couldn’t believe what he found inside. Miller was always eager to Miller was well-known throughout his community, living almost his entire life in Rush County. He was born in 1923 and grew up in the white farmhouse behind his home. During World War II, he attended Ohio State University’s Army Specialized Training Program, a partnership with the military that trained students in fields helpful to the war effort. Miller studied engineering, then got shipped off to New Mexico.
Carpenter decided he needed to see the collection again. This time, he showed up unannounced and asked more pointed questions. Miller told him about a Native American effigy pot his first wife, Sue, unearthed in the Southwest, a carronade from a Gulf of Mexico shipwreck he’d obtained after hiring a local diver to haul it up, a pair of mastodon tusks from Canada he’d excavated on a road trip.
Bolt remembers Miller as a walking, talking encyclopedia, fond of green-checked sport jackets and a giant ceramic coffee cup emblazoned with a Navy seal. At lunch, they’d talk about how societies evolved, history, civilizations, or Miller’s own expeditions. The practice coincided with the emergence of racist scientific theories asserting that behavioral attributes could be discovered through physical characteristics, like skull size. In the early to mid-1800s, Samuel Morton, considered the father of American anthropology, collected and analyzed a vast number of skulls he said proved that cranial size was a marker of intelligence, with whites at the top, Blacks at the bottom, and Native Americans in the middle. By 1867, the U.S.
This entire story is apparently fictional. Who would show artist renderings of artifacts instead of the actual artifacts. Those Native American bones (the Haitian Taino/Arawak included) must’ve been Negroid 💀
Stonekettle Wow, what an interesting/disturbing piece
This is sadly not uncommon - consider the W.H. Over museum on the campus of the University of South Dakota.
Stonekettle Another one of those boy scout hosts
Stonekettle Thank you for putting this out. Very interesting.
Stonekettle What an amazing and also horrifying story! Very well-written as well.
Stonekettle excellent article and shines a light on the good that the FBI can do....Native Americans have suffered so horribly, if only we could be a steward of Mother Earth as well as they have been for so long. They had it right all along.
Stonekettle Fascinating read Jim. Many thanks for retweeting.
Stonekettle Excellent article.
Stonekettle This is an excellent read and highlights the difference between academicians thief.
Stonekettle Amazing story...Wonder if it could be made into a mini-series?
Stonekettle “Why are you taking my Indians?” omg.
Stonekettle UHG!
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