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of the latter extending along the side of the stem. The left arm of the 
large figure lies on the side, with the hand grasping the leg of the child, 
whereas the right arm appears to have been flexed, the hand resting near 
the neck, as is shown by the scar where most of it is broken off. The arms 
of the child grasp the shoulders and the legs clasp the waist of the larger 
figure. Four impressed lines set off the fingers of the left hand, but the 
thumb is not distinguished from the fingers in size. The anus of both figures 
is indicated. The figurine, which is probably the work of a child, has the 
eyes, nose, and mouth crudely indicated; the head is not separated from 
the torso by a neck; and the arms are only a little more than suggested. 
Parts of both legs are missing. The scar on the back of the head suggests 
that this figure may have been part of another object, perhaps a pot rim 
as on pottery from New York, although the New York examples are mainly 
merely in relief {See Beauchamp, 2, Figures 41, 45, 101, 241. 245). 
What is possibly a conventionalized representation of a headless human 
form, although it may also represent a mammal or a lizard, is seen on the 
rim fragment of a pot in Plate VIII, figure 30; only part of it remains. 
An engraved, half-length representation of the human form is seen on 
the side of the long stone object in text Figure 3. The face shows an 
advance on most of those on pot rims in having all the facial features 
indicated — the eyes and nose by small, round depressions and the mouth 
by a short-, horizontal incision. The group of diagonal lines at the side 
of the head may represent hair or a feather head-dress, and the two diagonal 
lines on the breast may be intended for an arm. 
What was probably intended to represent a phallus, carved in antler 
{See Plate XVII, figure 24), may be considered here. The unsmoothed 
cuts, and its rough appearance generally, suggest that it is unfinished. It 
is the only carving of the kind from an Iroquoian site of which the writer 
has any record, and similar carvings seem to be rarely found at sites of 
other cultures. 1 
The animal forms consist of a possible mammal form, birds, a turtle, 
snakes, a fish, and what seem to be heads of frogs. 
What may be intended to represent the head of a mammal is crudely 
modelled on the side of a pot rim (Cat. No. VIII-F-9675) . 
Most of the bird forms consist of heads only. The broken head in 
Plate XVI, figure 8, with the eyes represented by deep, conical depressions 
and the mouth indicated by an impressed line, has the hooked beak of a 
raptorial bird and may represent the head of either an eagle or a hawk. 
Figures 9 and 10, in the same plate, show two broken heads which are prob- 
ably also those of birds. 2 The one in figure 9 has the nostrils indicated 
and the eyes consist of large, conical depressions; the eyes of the other 
head are represented by circular depressions, apparently made by stamping 
with the end of a hollow bone. The most lifelike representations are those 
in Plate XVT, figures 11 to 13; all probably representing horned owls. The 
Objects of this kind, modelled in earthenware, have been found at a Seneca site in Ontario co., N.Y. (See Parker, 
6* 197), and at a site in eastern Nebraska (See Gilder, p. 251). According to Thruston (p. 110), similar objects are 
“sometimes found separately carved or moulded with much labour and skill in stone and clay," in Tennessee, and 
they have been found in Georgia, and adjacent states (See also Jones (C.C.), p. 439, and Jones (J. ), p. 135). 
Similarly shaped bird heads occur on earthenware pipes from other Iroquoian sites in Ontario and New York 
(See Boyle, 1, fig. 12, showing one from a poBt>European site in Beverly tp., Wentworth co., and, 3, fig. 11, one from a 
Tionontati site in Nottawasaga tp., Simcoe co., Ont.; Parker, 6, fig. 37, one from a post-European Seneca site in 
Erie co., and Skinner, 4, fig. 18 b, one from a Cayuga site in Cayuga co., N.Y. Holmes, 2, Plate CLY, fig. d, shows 
another, probably also from New York). 
