Michigan Relics (Scotford-Soper-Savage), "photo 918": slate tablet with an eye in rays, two crowned profiles, and a domed building

SUMMARYMichigan Relics (Scotford-Soper-Savage), "photo 918": slate tablet with an eye in rays, two crowned profiles, and a domed building (Nov 4, 2026). Pinterest pin by Steven B Halls, board "Indigene." Tito: "they had their own arms... the Michigan artifacts, Mexican temples."
RECORD, the find story: James Scotford reported the first finds in 1890 near Wyman and Edmore, Michigan; Daniel E. Soper (a former Michigan Secretary of State) and Father James Savage promoted them. More than 1,000 pieces in all. Held today by the LDS Church history museum (Salt Lake City), the University of Michigan, the Michigan Historical Museum (Lansing), and Cranbrook Institute of Science.
RECORD, the material test: Richard B. Stamps (Oakland University), "Tools Leave Marks," BYU Studies 40:3 (2001), examined over 1,000 pieces in four collections: saw cuts, milling and file marks on the slate, steel-tool engraving, exact right angles and uniform thickness; on the copper, commercially rolled and smelted stock, with marks from cold chisels, wire cutters and snips. In 1907 Scotford said: "I haven't a relic left; I sold them all to Father Savage." The Detroit News (1911) reported that "the Scotford boys" claimed a confession. HOSTILE

SOURCE (Tito, Nov 4)BYU is a hostile witness, because the LDS "Lamanite" doctrine frames the original Americans through its own scripture; Stamps's findings stay Disputed until an independent examiner tests the pieces held in Michigan's public collections (microscopy of tool marks, XRF of the copper)

PATTERN (Lodge check)this tablet carries an eye radiating light and a domed, columned 19th-century-style capitol, both stock Masonic and civic imagery of the 1800s. Who made it, and what were they reading? Lodge Library: check Scotford and Soper for tier 1 lodge records before labeling either.
RECORD, real ancient metalwork in the same state: the Old Copper Complex around Lake Superior (Keweenaw, Isle Royale) mined and worked native copper into tools and points thousands of years ago; West Mexican smiths worked copper and bronze before contact

LENS (WW9)the ancestors were not primitive; the metalwork record proves it

LENS (gunpowder, ties P195 and P157)if Cathay and the "Indies" were in the Americas, as the Columbus letters and the Schöner globes place them, then the gunpowder the record credits to China (formulas in the Wujing Zongyao, 1044) belongs to the Americas

OPENthe chain hinges on Cathay being in the Americas; the test is the Chinese texts' own geography and any powder or saltpeter works found in the Americas. Needs deep research.