828 AN ANALYSIS OF THE 



"We give here an example (Fig. 136) of a series of variants in pottery. The speci- 

 mens were obtained at San Domingo, by Mr. William M. Gabb, late geologist to 

 the San Domingo Government. The originals are in the ISTational Museum at 

 Washington. Our drawings were kindly made by Mr. Gabb. The first we accept 

 as the radical of a full-faced human head, and proceed as follows : 



Fig 136. 



Ceramic variants from San Domingo design. 

 (b.) THE PROFILE. 



(&.) The Profile. The profile human head has an entirely distinct history from 

 the full-faced. We see some races very fond of reproducing it, as for example the 

 Egyptians with whom the front view in drawings was phenomenally rare. The Assyr- 

 ians also repeated the countenance in profile. With the ]Srorth American Indians the 

 profile is looked upon with contempt. Father Garnier of the Huron Mission, in writing 

 home for supplies, says of certain pictures he needed, " they must be full face, and 

 they must look directly at the beholder."* Mr. Catlin informs us that the Indians 

 consider a profile as representing but " half a man." The Aztecs evidently enter- 

 tained very different notions concerning the profile, and we find a fair sprinkling of 

 its variants throughout their art. In marked contrast to the Aztec full-faced radical 

 the profile is rarely or never inverted or otherwise changed in position. As in the case 

 of the full-face we find the richest sequence of profiles in the Dresden Codex. 



The radical (x) is here presented, and the probable sequence constructed thus : 



* Parkman, Jesuits in Nortli America. 



