MALLERY.] HUMAN FACES AND HEADS. 709 
the cranium of the bifrontal head, of which it seems to be the covering 
or skin, the features of the double-faced heads of the Marajo idols are 
immediately recognized, including the orifices by which those idols are 
hung on cords, which orifices are seen in the dividing line of the two 
faces. 
Fig. 1172 presents the general 
form of decoration found upon 
vases bearing figures of the face 
as above mentioned. It is a fu- 
neral urn, carved and engraved, 
from Marajo, reduced to one-fifth, 
Fig. 1172.—Funeral urn. Marajo. Fic. 1173.—Marajo vase. 
Frequently the face is produced in relief, in which a larger portion 
of a vessel is taken to produce more lifelike imitation, as in Fig. 1173. 
It is the neck of an anthropomorphic vase of Marajo ornamented with 
grooves and lines, red on a white ground, reduced to one-half. 
Fig. 1174 a, real size, is the neck of a Marajo vase, representing a 
human head. The nose and chin are very prominent, the eyes hori- 
zontal and slit in the same direction. This head is remarkable for the 
relief of the eyebrows which, after reaching the height of the ears, form 
these organs, describing above a second curve in the inverse direction 
of the curve of the brow, each brow thus forming an S. There are 
other heads in which the eyebrows are prolonged to form the relief of 
the ears at the outer extremity. In these cases the whole relief repre- 
sents a semicircle more or less irregular, while on the contrary this 
relief forms the figure 8. 
Same figure, }, real size, is the neck of an ornithomorphic, anthropo- 
cephalous vase. It has on the face the classic and conventional T to 
represent the nose and brows. The eyes are formed by the symbolic 
figure equally conventional in the ceramics of the mound-builders of 
Marajo, and the ears differ very little from the characters seen in other 
figures. 
