ANCIENT POTTERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. 



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Features. — The cut will convey a more vivid conception of this 

 striking head than any description that can be given. The face 

 cannot be said to have a single feature strongly characteristic of 

 Indian physiognomy. We have instead the round forehead, the 

 depressed nose, and the projecting mouth of the African. The face 

 would seem to be that of a youngish person, perhaps a female. The 

 other heads differ in many respects from this, only one exhib- 



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iting a decidedly American type of face. The features are all well 

 modeled, and are so decidedly individual in character that the 

 artist must have had in his mind a pretty definite conception of the 

 face to be produced as well as of the expression appropriate to it, 

 before beginning his work. It is not my impression, however, that 

 the portrait of a particular personage was intended. The closed 

 eyes, the rather sunken nose, and the i)arted lips, were certainly 

 intended to give the effect of death. The ears are large, cor- 

 rectly placed, and well modeled; they are perforated all along the 



