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ANTIQUITIES IN TENNESSEE. 



The mouth is smaller than in the male ; the lips are more prominent, and the 

 tongue is pressed out between the lips. The hair, or head-dress, rises up more 

 distinctly and forms an angle on the temples, and is drawn up behind into a knot, 

 after the manner practised by some of the Asiatic nations. The mammae are 

 small, round, well formed, and the little nipples distinct. The female organs of 

 generation are carved in relief. 



The kneeling posture indicates the act of worship ; the face of the female idol 

 is turned upwards, while that of the male looks forwards. 



The form of these idols still further sustains the conclusion that the stonp-grave 

 race of Tennessee was distinct from the nomadic and hunting tribes of North 

 America, and that this extinct race, in former times, may have come in contact with 

 the nations of the east. 



Figs. 69 and 70 represent the head of an image discovered in ISio, in Henry 

 County, Tennessee. This striking and beautiful image is carved out of white 

 compact fluor spar, a mineral unknown in this portion of the Mississippi Valley, 



Fig. 69. 



rig. 70. 



Fig. 69. Front view of a stone image, from Henry County, Tennessee. One-fourtli natural size. 

 Fig. 70. Profile of the image. 



My attention was called to the existence of this object by the following extract 

 from a communication which appeared in the "Franklin Weekly Eeview" of 

 October 18, 1868, written by Mr. S. H. McWhirter:— 



"In the spring of 1845, I was at Paris, the county seat of Henry County, Ten- 

 nessee, and there saw and purchased a sculptured image, found a few days before 

 at or near one of the largest mounds in this State upon the lands of Amos Milckeu 

 and Solomon Hartsfield. 



" Mr. Hartsfield was cleaning out what he thought to be a sink, and struck his 

 hoe against and dug up the image. 



"There is a wall in the shape of a horse-shoe, a mile or two in circuit, in some 

 places of sufficient height to be a barrier to stock, inclosing two square mounds 

 and eight rectangular ones. The main square mound is about 100 feet high, the 

 other, 60 or 70 feet in height ; both have large trees growing over them. There 

 are also three mounds, eight or ten feet high, and fifteen or twenty feet across. 



