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head is a lug or handle. In these human headed bowls the faces 

 look into the vessels, unlike the animal heads which look away 

 from it. The forehead in the head on this bowl is well 

 shaped, the head-dress is slightly raised where it rests on the 

 forehead, and runs up into the center point; on each side are 

 the little knobs, and a decided one projecting at the back. The 

 eyes are closed, both lids shown, and are long, full, and promi- 

 nent. There is something almost of classic suggestiveness in 

 this head, but the flattened occiput, and high sides show the 

 maker's attempt to copy in this, as well as in others here, the 

 artificial form of the heads he saw daily around him. As the 

 work of people for whom it is only claimed that the first 

 glimmer of the dawn of art were leading, the three last heads 

 are excellent efforts at moulding and cutting. It is impossible 

 to look at them without speculation at once intruding itself, 

 upon the origin and development of the people, who certainly 

 had long past the line between savagery and barbarism, which 

 Lewis Morgan draws at the making of pottery. 



Letitia Humphkeys Weenshall. 

 Baltimoee, May, 15, 1895. 



