Gushing.] ^^^ [Nov. 6. 



Stated transfixed with pegs to facilitate attachment by means of cords 

 passed through bifurcate lioles at tlie back edge of the headpiece, — but 

 they were also relatively large, and were fluted, and their tips were 

 curved as in nature, only more regularly ; and they were painted inside 

 with a creamy pink-white pigment to represent their translucency ; and 

 the black hair-tufts at the back were neatly represented by short, dou- 

 ble black streaks of paint, laid on lengthwise and close together. On the 

 crown of the head were two slight, flat protuberances, with central peg- 

 holes, for the attachment of small antlers, probably imitative, for thej' 

 had disappeared, as actual horns would not have done. 



The slime of the tortoise-shell eyes still remained in place, and the 

 combined bees-wax and rubber-gum cement with which they had been 

 secured was still intact when the specimen was found. The whites 

 of the eyes had consisted of some very bright gum-like substance, and 

 the front corners or creases of the eyes had been filled with black 

 gum and varnish, highly polished, so that, save for the four conven- 

 tional sets of equidistantly radiating winker-marks, they gave a sur- 

 prisingly life-like, realistic and timid or appealing, yet winsome ex- 

 pression, to the whole face. The muzzle, nostrils, and especially the 

 exquisitely modeled and painted chin and lower jaAv, were so delicately 

 idealized that it was evident the primitive artist who fashioned this 

 masterpiece, loved, Avith both ardor and reverence, the animal he was 

 portraying. 



The face-markings were perfectly symmetrical. Those in wliite are 

 sufficiently shown in the drawing. The cheeks or jowls were gray-blue, 

 merging upwardly into black, and the two central and lateral bands over 

 the forehead were divided by a deep black band, and were themselves of 

 a deeper blue. The face, below the forehead-crescent, and between and 

 to either side of the white nose-marks, was painted a dull black ; while 

 tlie nozzle was covered with an intensely black and gleaming varnish, 

 and the nostrils, which were outlined in black, were deeply cut in and 

 partially filled with a thick dead black substance, to make them appear 

 still deeper. 



I need only add that all the face-marks were not only delicately out- 

 lined with black, but were edged with fine, regular hair-marks ; and that 

 like marks, as well as minute stipplings, covered all the blue, and lighter 

 black areas of the face and sides, while along, and to the rear, of the 

 upper lip, the hair-warts were represented by neat, oval and regularly 

 disposed, thick or protuberant dots of black gum or varnish. 



Although so much of the line-painting on this figure was as fine as 

 though made with a camers-hair brush, it was evident, as on other 

 painted specimens, that points and spatulaj of some kind — probably of 

 ■wood — as well as brushes of human hair, had been employed in much of 

 the work; for the paint was mixed thickly with gum-sizing, — such as we 

 found many lumps of, in several shells filled with both the black kind, 

 and with the less permanent white and blue kinds of pigment., 



Fortunately, we secured an excellent photograph of this splendid 



