52 IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE Vor. XXIX, 1922 
Fig. 2. Reverse side of New Albin tablet. 
figure resembling a spear head or knife. These three figures 
reach from the base half way to the top and fill the space from 
side to side. Above them and running crossways of the tablet, 
with the base to the right, is more faintly traced what looks like 
a schoolboy’s picture of a lighthouse. 
Other lines on both sides were undoubtedly purposely put there 
by the engraver, but with two exceptions they do not form an 
outline picture of any object. One of these is a small cross within 
and near the top of the flower pictograph, the other at the right of 
and near the loins of the god, may be intended for a frog. 
Photographs of both sides of the tablet are attached. 
Waukon. 
