LTFE-rORM IN AET. 



323 



Fig. 133. 



(*) 



Fig. 123. (t) 



Fig. 124. (t) 



Fig. 125. (§) 



From Aztec design. 



The radical-like head (Fig. 119) succeeds to the fantastic head (Fig. 120), and 

 both would appear to be derivatives of the Egyptian head (Fig. 121). The Aztec 

 architectural (glyptic) radical (Fig. 122) is the ultimate abridgment of the full-faced 

 human skull of which Fig. 125 is the fullest development. There remains no doubt 

 that in this series the line of the lower border of the malar bones has been the line 

 characterizing the variants of the Aztec skull as a similar line will describe the most 

 prominent feature of the Egypto-Etruscan heads. 



(3.) The Radical of the .Fall-face. But it is in the lower stages of art where we 

 must seek for the best examples of face radicals. Large number of primal forms are 

 found etched upon rocks, and have never passed beyond rude attempts at realism. 

 Of these we do not now speak. But rather of the most persistent lines seen in an 

 abridgment of a more elaborate model, itself an ultimate of unknown transitions 

 from the primal shape. Thus in the comparatively modern attempt to depict the 

 human countenance in metal, we may have face radicals rapidly eliminated. 



The outline here presented we claim to be the most constant form in the follow- 

 ing sequence of figures obtained from Celtic metal ornamentation (Fig. 126). 



* Views of An. Men. in Central America, etc., 1844. F. Catherwood, pi. 9. 

 + Ibid., pi. 9. 



X Kingsborough Coll. (Dupaix.) 



§ Stephens, I. c. (Capan), I, 135, 1841. Tiie author supposes this to be a monkey's skull. 



