“INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries
built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just over a year, the quest has grown
to over a hundred fifty caches hidden in eighteen Indiana counties,
and the hiders have grown to five cacher teams, four of which are
comprised of A Man and His Dog...
PRAIRIEPARTNERS has set a record for one-day
ISQ finds on 10-16-2004 at 55! 180 cacher teams have logged over
1,960 finds.
Pioneer Cemetery (Photo by LEAD DOG)
INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST #157
”BIRCH TREE ROW"
Welcome to Studybaker/Baer Cemetery
(Jackson Twp., Koskiusko County ), kind of hidden away on a
hilltop. This place caould use some help. Probably a lot of graves
are no longer marked. We found the Studybakers and
JOHN
STUDYBAKER
DIED AUGUST 13, 1853
Hint is a spoiler.
>BIRCH BARK
BITINGS
Birch bark bitings are thin layers of birch bark with a
design bitten into the bark with the eye tooth. The designs were
originally used to create patterns for decorative work applied to
traditional Indian leather clothing
Cree Indian women from Grandmothers Bay Indian Reserve
(Kohkominanihk in Cree) on the Churchill River in northern
Saskatchewan have long practiced the art of biting, sometimes doing
it while taking a break from making birch bark baskets. They would
take a small piece of birch bark and tear it until it was the right
thickness. Then they traced a pattern on the bark with their
fingernails, folded the bark as you would to make a paper snowflake
and began biting the design into the bark.
BARK BITING
STUDYBAKER
The cache container
is a small plastic spice jar. BYOP. Park with Extreme
care.If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in
the ground. XXX
DON'T BE FOOLED BY UNWORTHY IMITATIONS!! None
genuine without this official SixDogTeam seal. 35mm photographs
taken by Lead Dog, copyright 2005 by RikSu Outfitters unless
otherwise noted. (Photos taken with 1970 Mamiya-Sekor 500DTL SLR)
We are the SixDogTeam and we approve of this cache.
"Indiana
Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the following wacky fellows of
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JOIN US, email SixDogTeam with caching resume and at least 14
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Quest
NO NIGHT CACHING