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a 111 omul in Union County, Illinois, by Mr. T. M. Perriue. The fignre, 

 like many shown, occupied a sitting posture, the base being tiat so that 

 the statue will sit aloiie. It differs from many of the foregoing in 

 several respects. The right knee is drawn up to the chin so that the 

 foot is placed tiat upon the ground; the forehead is receding or retreat- 

 ing, but the head is not thrown back and the chin is not in the air. 

 While the face is round, yet it is not round as are the others. The high 

 cheek bones and great breadth across the middle of the face so notice- 

 able in the former are absent in this. The roll of hair around the top 

 of the head is dilferently managed. But the greatest differences are in 

 .the features. The forehead is not flat either way, but, on the contrary, is 

 quite well rounded; the eyebrows are 

 not cut out, producing a ridge across 

 the face, as in the former specimens ; the 

 bridge of the nose is on the same plane 

 as the forehead; the eyes, nose, and lips 

 differ in style and mode of making and, 

 in fact, they represent an individual in 

 such a different light as that one might 

 easily suppose it belonged to a differ- 

 ent race from the former. The eyelids 

 are well developed, the eyeball is well 

 rounded, and the pupil is prominent. 

 The nose and mouth are heavy and 

 thick, and, without having any relation 

 to the negro race, tliey are far from rep- 

 resenting the aquiline nose and thin 

 lips in the former figures. Plate 47 rep- 

 resents a specimen of the same type. 

 The position of the body is the same, 

 and the i)eculiarities of eyes, nose, and 

 mouth are repeated. 



We pass to a still different geographic 

 area. Plate 52 represents two rude 

 figures of human heads, the smaller one from ]Monmouth, New Jersey, 

 reported in 1882.' The larger one was found in Southfleld, Staten 

 Island, near the Fingerboard Koad. A glance is suflicient to show 

 the similarity in appearance of the two individuals here represented, 

 and their dissimilarity with the two geographic grou]>s heretofore 

 described. The shape of the forehead, nose, lips, chin, iiuleed of every 

 feature in both statues, is noticeably different from the others. The 

 expression of the mouths and chins of these two are slightly different 

 from each other, but this might have arisen from want of skill of the 

 artist. There is nothing of the flat- or dish-faced appearance, so promi- 

 nent in the southern group, nor is there anything of the round or moon- 



rig. 132. 



CLAY STATUE. 



Height, 12 inches. 

 Mound, Union County, Illinois. 



T. AI. I'errine. Cast, Cat. No. 30249, U.S.N.M. 



NAT MUS UG- 



Aiiicriciin Xiitiiralist, 1882, p. 799. 

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