Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . Holy Naga Shrine in South India. (See page 84) (87) 88 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. Wrights book on The Origin and Antiquity of Manin the chapter on the Mound Builders. It will be seenat a glance, I think, that here was an attempt to repre-sent a hooded serpent, and this is brought out muchmore plainly in the photograph which is the frontispieceof the Report of the Archaeological Society of Ohio. It. Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio. (Seventh Picture) must be remembered, too, that there is no hooded snakein the Americas. The last pic
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . Holy Naga Shrine in South India. (See page 84) (87) 88 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. Wrights book on The Origin and Antiquity of Manin the chapter on the Mound Builders. It will be seenat a glance, I think, that here was an attempt to repre-sent a hooded serpent, and this is brought out muchmore plainly in the photograph which is the frontispieceof the Report of the Archaeological Society of Ohio. It. Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio. (Seventh Picture) must be remembered, too, that there is no hooded snakein the Americas. The last picture is a crude copy of another illustra-tion in Dr. Wrights book of the Serpent Mound foundin Warren County. Here it seems to me that theattempt was to represent the hood in profile. Com-pare it with the profile of the cobra shown in the secondpicture noted above. In this case I am informed that The Naga and Lingam of India. 89 the nearby creek has eroded a part of the head of themonument, and may have obHterated the lingam, ifone existed. This point ought to be carefully investi-gated by those who are in a position to consult the oldestdescriptions and drawings of this mound. There is a large possibility of further light beingthrown upon the problem of the origin of our American
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