. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . .Moore contain many specimens ofsuch ):)urial ligurines from themounds of Florida (.see figure 19). General Thruston illustrates a smallclay figure representing a babe in its cradle from a mound in Tennessee(figure 20); also the image of a turtle from the Noel cemetery near Nashville (figure 21); and recentlyDr Roland Steiner, of Grovetown,Georgia, has forwarded to the Mu-seum a number of small figures ofreddish terra cotta in which a varietyof physiognomy and facial expres-sion appear (see fi
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . .Moore contain many specimens ofsuch ):)urial ligurines from themounds of Florida (.see figure 19). General Thruston illustrates a smallclay figure representing a babe in its cradle from a mound in Tennessee(figure 20); also the image of a turtle from the Noel cemetery near Nashville (figure 21); and recentlyDr Roland Steiner, of Grovetown,Georgia, has forwarded to the Mu-seum a number of small figures ofreddish terra cotta in which a varietyof physiognomy and facial expres-sion appear (see figures 22 and 23).Tiiese hgures ha\e a more markedreseml)lance to Mexican work of thesame class than anj j^et found withinthe territory of the United flattening out of the head, asseen in profile, is especially note-worthy. They are from the Etowahgroujj of mounds in Bartow county, Georgia. Strangely enough, the most striking examples of this chiss of workyet found in the eastern United States are fiom a region where theordinary wares are inferior and not very plentiful. I refer to some.
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