PREHISTORIC ART. 



491 



in the art museiun of that city. The sculptured figures ou this tablet 

 are in low relief, reseiubliiij;- somewhat those on the " Cincinnati tablet." 

 (Fig. 140.) Tliis similarity is recognizable at a glance. The work is so 

 much alike that they might have been done by the same artist, but the 

 figures in outline and character are so different as to seriously afiect 



the theory of the sym- ^ 



holism and duplic;! ^ ■ ■ - - , ^ 



representation i 



man and seri)OL 

 There is in this, ap :; 

 parently, neither 

 head, mouth, body, 

 nor extremities, 

 which have been so 

 elaborately and in- 

 geniously discovered 

 and described in con- 

 nection with the 

 former tablet. 



Footprints. — A pe- 

 culiar and as yet un- 

 explained series of 

 stone sculptnrings 

 have been found in 



the territories now ! 



forming the United 

 States, and which are 

 believed to be unique 

 among its aborigines. 

 These are sculptured 

 footprints, and they 

 have given rise to 

 much speculation 

 and discussion. The 

 footprints at Carson, 

 Nevada,were a source 

 of great wonderment, 

 nor has their origin 

 been settled in aman- 

 ner acceptable to all. 

 Sjjecimens of foot- 

 prints have been 

 found in the lava or volcanic mud in Nicaragua (Cat. No. 98757,TJ.S.N.M.) 

 and possibly other Central American States, yet they were the actual 

 footprints, and had no relation to the art of sculpture. But in divers 

 portions of the United States actual sculptured specimens have been 

 found. Fig. 148 represents a pair of human footprints sculptured ou 



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I'ig. i;o. 



"CINCINNATI TABLET." 



Original in Cincinnati Art Mnsouni, property of Mr. (Jest. 



Oist, Cat. No. I^O-iii, U.S.N. M. N.-ituv.il size. 



