. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 629. I have a i)liotograpli of it, viewed on three sides. On the hips and back are colored zigzag lines of white and brown, intended for orna- iiient. Some years since a male, prob- ably the mate to it, was plowed out near the same place; also an earthen vase and other pottery,-with flint disks. The first- found image was lost or destroyed, and the other soon will be. In style and ar- tistic ex
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 629. I have a i)liotograpli of it, viewed on three sides. On the hips and back are colored zigzag lines of white and brown, intended for orna- iiient. Some years since a male, prob- ably the mate to it, was plowed out near the same place; also an earthen vase and other pottery,-with flint disks. The first- found image was lost or destroyed, and the other soon will be. In style and ar- tistic execution they appear to be the work of the present red man. Mr. Tumliu, the owner of the premises, and Mr. Sage, of Cartersville, who knew the country while the Cherokees were in possession of it, state that the summit of the great pyramid was a fortified village, snrronnded by pickets of wood and a slight embankment. This parapet is still visible, but is, at least in part, owing to Fig. 6. furrows turned outward in plowing, and, until recently, the stumps of the pickets were struck by the plow. Xear the southeast corner of the area, on the top, is a low mound. It is a third of a mile, at the nearest point, to where there is laud of a height equal to the mound, and there- fore it was a place easily defended. Although the Cherokees made use of it as a fort against the Creeks, they always denied having any knowl- edge of the race or the persons by whom the mound was erected. The gentlemen above named questioned them repeatedly on this point, and always received the same answer. If it had been designed as a place of defense originally, a much less broad and gentle road to the summit would have been made. I was attracted to this mound and its surroundings as a type of the flat-top pyramids, so common on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which have been by some archaeologists attributed to the present race of red men. In Florida and in Alabama, the early English and Spanish trav- ele
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