LIFE-FORM IN ART. 341 

 Fig. 174. 



An unknown animal. 



Fig. 175. 



(§) (I) (IF) 



"The Three Balls." 



Section YI. Difficulties met with in analyzing the Life-form. We have now 

 given a number of examples of the plan proposed for the study of variants, suffi- 

 cient we hope for the demonstration of the object in view. The reader has 

 doubtless observed that the fields from which the figures in the different series have 

 been gleaned have varying degrees of probability. In some, as in those from 

 the Dresden Codex, we find all the outlines secured from a single manuscript. In 

 others the radical may be found in the manuscript, but the intermediate-forms are 

 scattered in the sculpture and rock-pictures of Central America. In another group 

 again these shapes are sought for on the rocks of Utah — the carvings of the Frazer 



* Ribeiavao (Bolivia), Harp. Mag., Vol. XLIV, 503. 

 •)■ Kings. Coll. (Uupaix). 

 X Stephens, I. c. 



§ From U. S. photograph, rock opposite Parowan, Utah. Wheeler's Expedition. 

 II Jones, Southern Antiquities, 378. 



1 Squier, Traditions of Algonquins and Song of Creation. 



A. r. s. — VOL. XV. 3z. 



