46 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vou 60. 



No. 3. Neatly shaped implements ; Stone Age ; Europe. Process : Flaking by 

 percussion and possibly also by pressure 1,922, 35,144, 287,972 



No. 4. Highest forms of European flaked implements ; upper limit of shaping 

 by flaking process; Stone Age 100,968, 101,074 



No. 5. Implement roughed out by flaking hammers and finished by abrading 

 process. Northern Europe 186,738 



No. 6. Implements reduced to general shape by pecking and finished by abrad- 

 ing process. Europe 100,614(2) 



No. 7. Highest forms of shaped stone produced by Bronze Age races of Central 

 Europe. Pecking-abrading processes 100,720 



SERIES 2. ABORIGINAL AMERICAN SCULPTURE. 



Plates 52-54. 



The American tribes seem to have displayed a strong predeliction 

 for sculpture. They shaped their stone implements with great skill 

 and delighted in the representing of animal forms. Religious motives 

 inspired most of the more elaborate work, although esthetic apprecia- 

 tion was not wanting. 



The series of objects here presented covers nearly the full range 

 of native achievement, although the best examples shown fall far 

 short of the highest types of Aztec and Maya work. The simplest 

 forms are shown in plate 52, and a series of progressive steps lead up 

 to the higher forms in plates 53, 54. It is believed by some that 

 germs of culture have occasionally reached America from other lands 

 and that sculpture on this continent is not wholly of native growth. 



Many tribes are still practicing the lowest forms of the art, while 

 others, such as the Northwest coast peoples, are well advanced. 



No. 1. Simple flakes used as implements and worked into useful forms ; also a 

 core like those from which they were struck. American Indians. 



No. 2. Implement roughed out by flaking a single stone 169,9-43 



No. 3. Progressive form from a single stone 202,105 



No. 4. Further work in producing a flat blade . 208,109 



No. 5. Finely worked implement made by skillful chipping. Missouri 137,927 



No. 6. Implements roughed out by flaking and finished by abrading processes, 



85,276, 116,272, 147,668 

 No. 7. Highest type of form and finish by this process. Porto Rico, West 



Indies 16,902 



No. 8. Celt showing work in representing a human figure. Elementary life- 

 form sculpture. Santo Domingo 220,.535 



No. 9. Implement roughed out by pecking. Georgia 170,895 



No. 10. Pecked implement, partly smoothed surface. Georgia 170,333 



No. 11. Highly finished stone ax worked into shape by pecking. West Vir- 

 ginia 90,512 



No. 12. Stone hammer, showing rude sculpture by pecking. Elementary stage of 



life-form sculpture. Alaska. 

 No. 13. Human figure. Water- worn stone modified to represent features in re- 

 lief. New Mexico. 

 No. 14. Human figure. Block of stone with most work done in freeing the head. 



Kentucky. 

 No. 15. Human figures. Block of hard stone with head worked out. Mexico. 



