PREHISTORIC ART. 



471 



Plate 45 represents two views of a stone statue, a cast of wlii(;li is in 

 the Uuitecl States Xatioual Museiim. The original is in the Tennessee 

 Historical Society collection. 

 Tlie following (lescrii)tion is 

 given of this specimen by Col. 

 Charles C. Jones:' 



It was plowed tip on Col one 

 Tunilin's plantation (near Carters- 

 ville, Georgia), near the base of 

 the large tumnlns (Tnmlin's Eto- 

 wah Monnd). * * =* It is a fe- 

 male fignre in a sitting posture. 

 The legs, however, are rudimen- 

 tary aud unformed. Its height is 

 15| inches, and its weight 33| 

 pounds. Cut out of a soft xalcose 

 rock, originally of a grayish hue, 

 it has been in time so much dis- 

 colored that it noAY pi'cseuts a fer- 

 ruginous appearance. Below the 

 navel, and enveloping the but- 

 tocks and rudimentary thighs, is a 

 hip dress, ornamented both on the 

 left side and behind by rectangu- 

 lar, circular, and irregular Hues. 

 The ears are pierced, and the head 

 is entirely bald. In the center of 



the top of the head a hole has been drilled half an inch in depth, and five-tenths of 

 an inch in diameter. This prob.ably formed the socket in which some head orna- 

 ment was seated. That ornament, whatever it was, had fallen out and was lost when 

 the image was fouml. Springing from the back of the head and attached at the 

 other end to the back midwaj' between the shoulders, is a 

 substantial handle by means of which this image could haA^e 

 been securely suspended or safely transported from jjlace to 

 place. The mammary glands are sharply defined and maidenly 

 in their appearance. The ears, hand, and navel are rudely 

 formed. The impression conveyed is that of a dead, young, 

 flat-head Indian woman. Unfortunately the left arm has been 

 broken off, but other ^vise this idol is in a state of remarkable 

 preservation. 



It appears, also, from Colonel Jones, that another 

 statue in the possession of Colonel Tumlin, in 1859, 

 had been plowed up near the same mound. Colonel 

 Jones reported that he saw it, and he gives the fol- 

 lowing descri])tion:- 



It was of coarse dark sandstone, and it was 12 inches high. 



It consisted of a male figure in a sitting posture. The knees 



were drawn up almost on a level with the chin, the hands 



resting upon and clasping either knee. The chin and forehead 



were retreating, the hair gathered into a knot beliind, the face upturned, and the 



eyes angular. Unfortunately this image was lost or destroyed during Sherman's 



march through Georgia in 1864. 



Fig. 123. 



HUMAN STATUE (FRONT AND BACK ATEWS), SANDSTONE. 



Ueiglit, 8 inches. 

 Fraukliii, Williamson County, Tennessee. 



Cat. No. ]<iit34, U.S.N.M. 



Vi'j:. 124. 



STATUE OP FEMALE 



FIOUUE. 



Height, 15 inches. 



Yellowish sandstone. 



Williamson County, 



Tennessee. 



Cat. No. 19939, U.S.N.M. 



1 Anticjuities of the Southern Indians, pp. 432,433. 



' Pajre 432. 



