Clyde Snow | Stories in Bones; Clyde Snow, forensic anthropologist, died on May 16th, aged 86.
www.economist.com/news/obituary/ ... ed-86-stories-bones
My comment:
(a) "From one fragment of skull and a pearl button, found on the site of Custer’s last stand at Little Bighorn in 1876, he deduced the presence at the battle of Mitch Bouyer, a civilian Sioux interpreter."
(i) Mitch Bouyer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Bouyer
(1837-1876; His father, Jean-Baptiste Bouyer, was a French Canadian furrier; Mitch's mother was a Santee Sioux; an interpreter for US army)
Quote: "In 1984, a fire burned through much of the Custer Battlefield, enabling archaeological digs to be made. Part of a skull was found that was identified as Bouyer's by comparison of the facial bones with the only photograph known of him.
(ii) The southern French surname Bouyer is regional variant of Bouvier. The French surname Bouvier (President Kennedy's wife had the maiden name Bouvier) means "a herdsman, Old French bouvier (Late Latin bovarius, a derivative of bos, genitive bovis, ‘ox’)."
Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.
pronunciation for a dog breed called bouvier:
www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bouvier
(iii) Battle of the Little Bighorn
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn
(June 25–26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory; view table for strength and casualties)
(iv) The surname Custer is "Americanized spelling of German Köster or Küster ‘sexton.’"
(b) "From some shreds of European clothes, he proved that a skeleton dug up in Bolivia was neither Butch Cassidy nor the Sundance Kid, as thought, but a German prospector called Zimmerman."
(i) Butch Cassidy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy
(1866-1908; died in a gunfight in Bolivia)
Quote: "The bodies [of Cassidy and Longabaugh] were buried at the small San Vicente cemetery, where they were buried close to the grave of a German miner named Gustav Zimmer. Although attempts have been made to find their unmarked graves, notably by the American forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow and his researchers in 1991, no remains with DNA matching the living relatives of Cassidy and Longabaugh have yet been discovered.
(ii) Economist is wrong. It is Zimmer, not Zimmerman.
(iii) The German surname Zimmer means "a carpenter, either from Middle High German zim(b)er, zimmer ‘wood’, ‘wooden building’ or a shortening of Zimmermann."
(c) “And from a crooked left index finger, details of his hat size and the presence of Nazi-era dental fillings, Mr Snow proved in Brazil in 1985 that he was dealing not with Wolfgang Gerhard, as the identity card declared, but with Josef Mengele, who had experimented on hundreds of victims at Auschwitz.”
Josef Mengele
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele
(1911-1979)
Quote: In 1979 in Brazil “he suffered another stroke while swimming and drowned.[99] Mengele was buried in Embu das Artes under the name ‘Wolfgang Gerhard,’ whose identification card he had been using since 1971
(d) “he [Snow] began to investigate the Argentinian desaparecidos in 1984 * * * Almost all those he unearthed had been killed with a single bullet to the head from an army-issue Ithaca shotgun.”
Ithaca Gun Company
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Gun_Company
(In 1883, [William Henry] Baker, [Leroy] Smith, and several partners moved to Ithaca[, NY] and established the original Ithaca Gun Company; the Ithaca 37 shotgun; recent headquarters Upper Sandusky, Ohio)
(e) “he carried a striking memory from his boyhood of finding, on a hunting trip, the tangled skeletons of a hunter and a mule deer, and with them a bunch of keys that unlocked doors in a local house, proving who the hunter was.”
(i) mule deer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_deer
(Odocoileus hemionus; a deer indigenous to western North America; named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule; Unlike the related white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), mule deer are generally more associated with the land west of the Missouri River, and more specifically with the Rocky Mountain region of North America)
(ii) “the tangled skeletons”
I guess the hunter might have carried the mule deer (a small one?) on his shoulder/back when he died.
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