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Flo. 78. HalfsiZP. 



Fin. 7 6 . 



Figures 76 and 77 are both pipes of baked clay. Tliey were 

 plouglied up in Virginia at a point nearly opposite the mouth 

 of the Hocking river, where there are abundant traces of an 

 ancient people, in the form of mounds, embankments, etc. One 

 represents a human head, with a singular head-dress, closely 

 resembling some of those observed on the idols and sculp- 

 tures of Mexico. The other represents some animal coiled 

 together, and is executed with a good deal of spirit. 



Fig. 78 is a reduced outline representation of an article of baked clay, found a num- 

 ber of years ago, in a mound near Nashville, Tennessee. It has the form of a human 

 head, with a portentous nose and unprecedented phrenological developments. It 

 is smooth and well polished, and contains six small balls of clay, which were 

 discovered upon perforating the neck. They must necessarily have been introduced 

 before the burning of the toy. Similar conceits were common in Mexico and 

 Peru, and were observed by Kotzebue upon the North-west Coast. The Mexicans 

 had also rude flutes of clay, upon which, with a little practice, not unmusical 

 sounds may be produced. 



Fiff. 70 was taken from a mound in Butler 



county, Ohio. It repres(>nts the head of a 



bird, somewhat resembling the toucan, and is 



,.,„ -.1 e.xecuted witii much spirit. It seems origi- 



nallv to have been attached to some vessel, 



from whicli it wa.s brokcMi in'foro beintr (Icpositcd in the mound.* 



* In till' cahincl of .Iamks MrniniiK. Esq. 



