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This may be done, wc think, by fixing the concrete symbols representing, it is thought, 

 the cardinal points. We would place the figure in the same category with the 

 symbols there figured, and present in the same connection such forms as Figure 

 ] 59, interpreting the side pieces as human faces with chins directed to the side of the 

 full-faced countenance : * 



Fig. 159. 



Anthropoid outline with symmetrical face-radicals, of Aztec design. 



Could any of the above lines be accidental ? Could any of them have been 

 forgot by the dishonest, or imitated by novices? Or, could any school-bred 

 scrawler, .boy or man, have made them ? May we not place in the same connection 

 this piece (Fig. 160) of Haidah (Babine) carving ?f In speaking of this, Mr. "Wilson 



Fig. 160. 



Full-face lnunan countenance with complex lateral face radicals, of Haidah design. 



aptly remarks : " I was struck with a certain i-esemblance to the peculiar style of 

 ancient Mexican and still more of Central Ameiican art." 



Fig. 161. (j) 



Symmetrical composite of Aztec design, showing an. arrangement of full-face and profile radicals. 

 * Squier, I. c, I, 406. + Prehistoric Man, Daniel Wilson, Lond., 1863, II, 21. ^ Humboldt, Vue de Cordilleras. 



