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tered very smooth with red clay ; then the figures or symbols are drawn with white 

 clay, paste, or chalk : if the walls are plastered with white clay, the figures are 

 sketched in red, brown, or blueish paste. 



"Almost all kinds of animals, sometimes plants, flowers, trees, etc., are depicted; 

 also figures of men in various attitudes, some very ludicrous and even obscene. 

 In some instances, the memhrum generationis virile is represented ; but I saw no 

 instance of indelicacy in a female figure. Men are often pictured with the head 

 and other members of different kinds of animals, as the wolf, buck, hare, horse, 

 buffalo, snake, duck, turkey, tiger, cat, crocodile, etc., etc. All these animals, on 

 the other hand, are depicted having the human head and other members, as also 

 the head and members of other animals, so as to appear monstrous. 



CREEK TOWNS AND DWELLINGS. 



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 The habitations of the citizens are placed with considerable regularity in streets 

 or ranges, as indicated in the plan."* 



The inference might not unreasonably be drawn, from Bartram's language, that 

 the rectangular areas, surrounded by embankments, as also the square and circular 



* " The dwellings of the Upper Creeks consist of little squares, or rather of four oblong houses enclosing 

 a square area, exactly on the plan of the Public Square. Every family, however, has not fom- of these 

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