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can family, the type of which seems to have been radically the same through the 

 extent of the continent, excluding, perhaps, a few of the tribes at the extremes. 



Fig. 146 is carved from a light-colored sandstone, and represents a human 

 figure resting upon its knees and elbows, the soles of the feet and the palms of tiie 

 hands being placed together. It is also adapted as a pipe. It has a singular, 

 painful expression of countenance. A double set of converging lines start from 

 the eye upon the right side of the face and extend diagonally across it. Upon the 

 left side is a single set terminating in a point near the ear. This figure is boldly 

 but not delicately carved, and was found while digging a mill race, three feet 

 below the surface, on the west bank of the Miami river, near the village of 

 Tippecanoe, Miami county, Ohio.* It measures six inches in length by about the 

 same height. 



Fig. 147 is a fine specimen of ancient sculpture. It was found within an ancient 

 enclosure twelve miles below the city of Cliillicothe, find, from the material and 

 style of workmanship, may be regarded as a relic of the mound-builders. The 



In llie possp'ision of .1. Van Ci.eve. Esq., Dayton, Ohio. 



