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ANTIQUITIES IN TENNESSEE. 



The male organ of generation, which was large and prominent in the sand- 

 stone idol A, was broken off accidentally. 



Fig. 71. 



A. 



B. 



C. 



Fig. 71. A. A sm.-ill idol from a mound in Perry County, near Clifton, Tennessee. 



B. A small hollow cl.ay idol, from a stone grave at Boiling Springs, Williamson County, Tennessee. 



C. A black clay idol from the Pyramid of CLolula, near Mexico. 



Figure B represents the body of a black female idol, obtained from a stone 

 grave at Boiling Springs, Williamson County, Tennessee, by the late Dr. Freeman. 

 In the same figure, a small Mexican idol C, from Cholula, seven inches in 

 height, and composed of burnt clay painted black, is represented. I have in my 

 possession six small terra-cotta heads from the temple of Cholula, Mexico, 

 which exhibit the prominent nose and expressive mouth so characteristic of the 

 Henry County fluor-spar head previously described. In four of these small 

 figures the top of the head is smooth and without ornament ; in two the head- 

 dress is similar, but more elaborate than that of the Henry County idol, or the 

 small stone idol A, in Fig. 71. These Mexican heads resemble closely several of 

 those figured by Brantz Mayer,' found in the neighborhood of the pyramids of St. 

 Juan Teotihuacan. 



It is admitted by Humboldt and other writers, who have investigated the 

 antiquities of iNIcxico, that the Temple of Cholula and the pyramids of Teo- 

 tihuacan were not built by the Aztecs, but were in existence when the Mex- 

 icans, one of the seven tribes of the Anahuatlacs (inhabitants of the banks of 

 rivers), took possession, in the year 1190, of the equinoctial region of New Spain. 



The Aztecs attributed the great pyramidal monuments of Teotihuacan, Cholula, 

 Cholollan, and Papantla to the Toltecs, a powerful and civilized nation of people 

 who inhabited Mexico five hundred years earlier. 



* Mexico as it Was, and as it Is, p. 226. 



