NEW ALBIN TABLET 
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Fig. 1. Obverse side of New Albin. tablet. 
The tablet is approximately pentagonal in shape. The shortest 
side is the base for the pictographs. The two lateral sides, the 
longest, are of nearly equal length. The two top sides are of 
unequal lengths and both shorter than the laterals, one being a 
curve. The respective lengths, beginning with the base and then 
the right-hand side, are 3%, 7^4, 4, 6, and 6J4 inches. The great- 
est length is 9 inches, the greatest width is 7^4 inches. 
The obverse face has been countersunk leaving a rim from J4 
to Yi an inch wide at the bottom and on the lateral sides, and 
about Y inch in height. On the shorter of the top sides nine tally 
notches have been cut, apparently by flint; on the longer curving 
side, thirteen ; and on the base, ten. Five have been cut into the 
top of the rim on the left side near the center, with one by itself 
nearer the top. 
The pictograph on the obverse side probably represents a god 
or devil having the body and limbs of a man with the head of 
a bird, facing the left. From the head a zigzag line, probably in- 
tended for a bolt of lightning, runs diagonally downward to near 
the center of the left-hand rim. 
The center figure on the reverse side is much more deeply in- 
cised than any other on the tablet and may be a representation 
of a flower or wand. On each side of this is a lozenge-shaped 
