June 8 (UPI) -- An Indiana woman cleaning the attic of a house that had been unoccupied for decades discovered a collection of 27 Indian skulls in ... walls and ceiling painted to look like ...

Other shells were painted ... two goat skulls. Two snapping turtle skulls were decorated with glitter. Schuppert also showed off case after case of arrowheads and other American Indian artifacts.

A painted deer skull is mounted on a pole at its center ... chief curator at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. “The spikes are for protection.