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Fifi. 21 — Small ImaifO of a turtle. Tennessee. 



the potter.s of .some .sections, but ahiio.st universally as elaborations 

 and embellishments of vessels, pipes, and other useful articles. Serious 

 attempts at the modeling in clay of human or animal tig-urcs for the 

 figure's sake were apparently quiti^ 

 exceptional, although images in 

 stone are common. Nearly all 

 solid figures in clay so far report- 

 ed have the character of toys or 

 rude votive or mortuary offerings. 

 The collections of Clarence B. 

 Moore contain many specimens of 

 such burial figurines from the 

 mounds of Florida (see figure 19). General Thruston illustrates a small 

 claj' figure representing a babe in its cradle from a mound in Tennessee 

 (figure 20); also the image of a turtle from the Moel cemetery near 



Nashville (tigui-e 21); and I'ecently 

 Dr Roland Steiner. of Grovetown, 

 Georgia, has forwarded to the Mu- 

 seum a number of small figures of 

 reddish terra cotta in which a variety 

 of physiognomy and facial expres- 

 sion appear (see figures 22 and 23). 

 These figures have a more marked 

 resemlilance to Mexican work of the 

 same class than any yet found within 

 the territory of the United States. 

 The flattening out of the head, as 

 seen in profile, is especially note- 

 worthy. They are f I'om the Etowah 

 group of mounds in Bartow county, Georgia. 



Strangely enough, the most striking examples of this class of work 

 yet found in the eastern United States are from a region where the 

 ordinary wares are inferior and not very plentiful. I refer to some 



Fig. 22 — Small earthenware figures suggest- 

 ing ancient Mexican work, Georgia. 



Ft(;. 23 — Earthenware heads of Mexican type, Georgia. 



specimens of small figurines in claj' obtained by Professor F. W. 

 Putnam from a mound in southwestern Ohio. Thej^ appear to (>xcel 

 anj' similar work north of Mexico in the aiJi^reciation of form and 



