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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Plate 4G shows tliree stone statues, all of which are represented in 

 the United States National Museum by casts. The originals (Cat. Nos. 

 30251, 30252, U.S.N.M.) are in the Louisville Public Library. They are 

 of sandstone and were found within the State, tlie precise locality being 

 uncertain. The third statue (Cat. No. G1259, TJ.S.N.M.) is from the same 

 general locality, but, like the former, the details concerning its finding 

 are unknown. Some of these have been broken, possibly in the original ; 

 in others the casts may be imperfect or brokea, but enough remains to 

 make it apparent that they were the work of the same class of artists 



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Fig. 125. 



STONE SCULPTURE OF HUMAN FIGURE, FRONT AND BACK VIEWS. 



Prom a stone grave, Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tennessee. 

 Height, 3J inches. 



C .Uei-te.l liy .«. .?. Bush, of Louisville, Kentucky. Prof. Cyrus Thomas, American Anthropologist, December, LStiG, p. 4fi4. 



and represented the same peoples. They are alike in their general fea- 

 tures, the shape of the head, the cbin in air, retreating forehead, rounded 

 skull, the fringe of hair, the broad face, prominent ears, overhanging 

 eyebrows, Roman nose, i^rotruding lips, and ring-shaped mouth. Two 

 of them are females, the third a male. They are all squatting, or pos- 

 sibly only intended to represent the trunk of the human figure. All of 

 them are flat on the bottom and able to sit straight ^ind alone. Fig. 

 120 represents two views of a stone statue. It is 14^ inches high and 

 is of comi)act limestone. It is from a mound on Long Island, Eoane 

 County, Tennessee, and was excavated by Mr. J. W. Emmert, under 



