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style of art iiiid tbe same method of representing the human face 

 and form. 



Plates 50 and 51 are further representations of the human face and 

 form in these efligy bottles. They all come from Tennessee, and show 

 the various styles of bottles and types of the pottery sculptures of the 

 human face. The human form is not supposed in these to be accurately 

 represented, but is highly conventionalized in order to accommodate 

 itself to the utilitarian purpose of the bottle. These all come from stone 

 graves in Tennessee, and most of them from the neighborhood of Nash- 

 ville, and are represented one-third actual size. 



Another style of potter}^ vessel belonging to the same geographic 

 area, though extending farther north, is the bowl with a handle repre- 

 senting a human or animal form. One of these (fig. 131, two views) was 

 dug from a mound in Marshall County, Iowa. Although the face is 

 grotesque, the nose being exaggerated, yet it bears the family resem- 



Fig 131 



POTTERY BOWL, FRONT AND SIDE VIEWS. HANDLE REPRESENTINO HUMAN HEAD. 



Mound, Marshall County, Iowa. 



Ca . No. 173(188, U.S.N.M. j!j natural size. 



blance; the head is thrown back, chin in air, retreating forehead, the 

 high cheek bones, the eyes and mouth made in the same way as the 

 other i)ottery effigies, and generally the similarities are such as to iden- 

 tify them wath the same style of art. 



The author has avoided, so far as possible, any reproduction from 

 Professor Holmes's work on Art in Pottery, and it is not intended to 

 go into this subject. The foregoing have been introduced in order to 

 call attention to the peculiarities of the human face throughout this 

 geographic area, whether in stone or on pottery. Many other exami)les 

 might be cited and copied if required. 



DIFFERENT AREAS AND STYLES. 



We now pass to a different style of sculpture, still aboriginal, but 

 belonging to a different geographic area, the center of which might be 

 indicated generally as Illinois. Eig. 132 represents a statue taken from 



