. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC ART. 487 Morgantown, Catawba County, iSTortb Carolina. The slab is about 2 inches in thickness, and the back is slightly concave. The mechanical art of the stone working is better than the artistic representation of the human face. The face is quite too long for its width. The features are extremely rude, the eyes being represented by mere excavations in the stone. The nose is a simple protuberance. The hair is not rep- resented
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC ART. 487 Morgantown, Catawba County, iSTortb Carolina. The slab is about 2 inches in thickness, and the back is slightly concave. The mechanical art of the stone working is better than the artistic representation of the human face. The face is quite too long for its width. The features are extremely rude, the eyes being represented by mere excavations in the stone. The nose is a simple protuberance. The hair is not rep- resented, and there is but a faint representation of eyebrows, which is made by a shallow groove running across the face from one temple ,i^ i^ gv>:. ?li " 'MM: m I' "1' 'Jll.'sl t(V,l Fig. 140. STONE MASK. Gambier, Ohio. Cat. No. 31384, .M. size. to the other. The chin is represented by a square figure, and the neck might serve for a handle. There are many of these masks of differ- ent materials and style. Their purpose is unknown. A suggestion is given of the possibility of use of this specimen by the holes which have been drilled along the side, and which may have served for attachment. Some of the masks from Mexico and Central America have similar holes. Fig. 142 1 represents two views of a bust carved from coarse marble, which was found in one of the small mounds on Colonel Tumlin's place 'Twelfth Annual Report of the Bnrean of Ethnology, 1890-91, pp. 30, 308, fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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