PREHISTORIC ART. 



487 



Morgantown, Catawba County, iSTortb Carolina. The slab is about 2 

 inches in thickness, and the back is slightly concave. The mechanical 

 art of the stone working is better than the artistic representation of 

 the human face. The face is quite too long for its width. The features 

 are extremely rude, the eyes being represented by mere excavations 

 in the stone. The nose is a simple protuberance. The hair is not rep- 

 resented, and there is but a faint representation of eyebrows, which 

 is made by a shallow groove running across the face from one temple 



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Fig. 140. 

 STONE MASK. 



Gambier, Ohio. 



Cat. No. 31384, U.S.N .M. Natur.il size. 



to the other. The chin is represented by a square figure, and the neck 

 might serve for a handle. There are many of these masks of differ- 

 ent materials and style. Their purpose is unknown. A suggestion is 

 given of the possibility of use of this specimen by the holes which 

 have been drilled along the side, and which may have served for 

 attachment. Some of the masks from Mexico and Central America 

 have similar holes. 



Fig. 142 1 represents two views of a bust carved from coarse marble, 

 which was found in one of the small mounds on Colonel Tumlin's place 



'Twelfth Annual Report of the Bnrean of Ethnology, 1890-91, pp. 30, 308, fig. 191. 



