the Etowah group, Bartow county, Georgia, on the plantation of that gentleman. This, according to Colonel C. C. Jones, "consisted of a male figure in a sitting posture. The knees were drawn up almost upon a level with the chin, the hands resting upon and clasping either knee. The chin and forehead were retreating. The hair was gathered into a knot behind. The face was upturned and the eyes were angular." Unfortunately this specimen was lost during the war. Another, however, was

plowed up in the same place, of which a side view is presented in figure 4, taken from the cast in the Smithsonian collection, while a front view is given by Colonel Jones in his plate xxvI. Colonel Jones, who exhibited the original to Drs Rau and Berendt, at which time it is presumed the cast was made, describes the original as follows: "It is a female figure in a sitting posture. The legs, however, are entirely rudimentary and unformed. Its height is 15 inches, and its weight thirty-three and a half pounds. Cut out of a soft talcose rock, originally of a

grayish hue, it has been in time so much discolored that it now presents a ferruginous appearance."" The loins are represented as covered by a kind of kilt, "ornamented both on the left side and behind by rectangular, circular, and irregular lines." Unfortunately these lines are not clear on the cast; hence are not shown in our figure, which also fails to show the full slope of the forehead, which is strongly compressed. The original is in the collection of the Tennessee Historical Society.

We see in this image the fillet or "handle," as Jones called it, but comparatively shorter and narrower than that of the Bush image. This also differs from

the other in two important particulars. Here the head is entirely bare, while in the other it has a covering either of hair or some slight cap, either of cloth or skin, though seemingly it is the hair. In this figure, which represents a female, there is a short dress about the loins, while the other (a male) is entirely nude. The strongly retreating or sloping forehead, indicative of frontal compression, is a very distinct characteristic of the Etowah specimen, though not clearly shown in our figure.

In plate IV of his Antiquities of Tennessee, General Thruston presents figures of three stone images in the collection of the Tennessee Historical Society, which he informs us are "by the photo-mechanical process, and are therefore more accurately presented in the picture than by any description we could give of them." Two of these figures represent females and are very distinctly of the type of the Etowah specimen. The lower portions appear to be incomplete; the heads are bare and show the same sloping face, the closed eyes, and the same circular outline; the nose of the one at the right of the plate is also of the 1 Antiquities of the Southern Indians, p. 433.

same form. Whether the "fillet" is present in these does not appear from the figures or from the author's statement in regard to them. They are sitting figures, the position being apparently the same as that of the Etowah specimen, and the left figure appears to be similarly clothed. The latter is from Trousdale county, Tennessee, and that on the right from Smith county, in the same state.

Another stone image, belonging to the same type, is shown in plate XI (reproduced from figure 240 of the Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology), representing front and side views. This, which represents a male, was found by the side of a skeleton, which lay in a large boat-shape clay vessel in a mound on Long Island, Roan county, Tennessee. We see here the oblique face and substantially the same position as that of the Bush image. The hair in this case appears to be gathered at the back of the head, somewhat in the form of a chignon. The height of this specimen is 14 inches. The image in Colonel Tumlin's possession in 1859, above mentioned, appears to have had the hair arranged in the same form as this specimen; the posture, however, if correctly described by Colonel Jones, was somewhat different, and bore a resemblance to the specimen found by Mr T. M. Perrine in Union county, Illinois. This, of which a side view is shown in figure 5, was obtained from a mound. The right hand of the figurine rests on the right knee, which is drawn up nearly to the chin, a feature not shown in the illustration. In this it is evident that the head-covering is the hair. Instead of the fillet or strip on the back, a long triangular space running from the top of the head to the middle of the back is marked off by an incised line. The oblique forehead or indication of frontal compression is a prominent feature here as in the others we have mentioned. The figure is taken from the cast now in the National Museum.