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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896, 



a sandstone slab, or rock, on tlie Upper Missouri Eiver, This slab, as 

 shown in the ligure, was cut out from its original resting place. The 

 work was done by Captain Little, United States Army, and presented 

 to tlie United States National Museum by him. The tracks are about 

 11 inches long and represent the leet as covered Avith moccasins. 



Fig. 149 is another speci- 

 men representing the 

 print of a naked human 

 foot with several cup 

 niarkings on the same 

 surface. It was cut in a 

 Hattish qua rtzite bowlder, 

 and was found in Gas- 

 conade County, Missouri, 

 by Mr. John P. Jones, by 

 whom it was sent to the 

 National Museum. The 

 length of the track is 0-| 

 inches. Tlie opposite side 

 of the bowlder bears a 

 footprint less distinct 

 than this. 



Sculptures similar in 

 appearance to the latter, 

 but representing the hu- 

 man hand instead of the 

 foot, have been found 

 among the aborigines. 

 One (Cat. No. -l311iG, 

 U.S.N.M.), on a Hat and 

 smooth limestone or mar- 

 ble slab, was found in a 

 mound near Naples, Illinois, and presented to the United States National 

 Museum by Mr. J, B. Henderson. It represents the hand more by out- 

 line than intaglio. It is about twice the natural size, and shows the 

 lingers spread widely apart. 



Pottery. 



After stone, pottery came into the greatest use in i)rehistoric times. 

 It has peculiar interest to us in that it was the material which lent 

 itself most readily to art purjjoses, and again from its great resistance 

 to the ravages of time. The manifestation of art on pottery in the 

 way of decoration could be perpetuated, not only from its enduring 

 character, but when broken into fragments the decoration would not be 

 lost. The greatest number of patterns and art motifs of prehistoric 

 times throughout the Eastern Hemisphere have been i)eri)etuated in the 

 fragments of pottery. 



Fig. 147. 



"WAVERLY TABLET," SANDSTONE. 



Wa^•el■ly, Ohio. 



Cincinnati Art Museum, property of Mr. Robert Clarke. 



Cast, Cat. No. iis060, U.S.N.M. Niitiiral size. 



