Animal Carvings From Mounds of the Mississippi Valley
Animal Carvings From Mounds of the Mississippi Valley
Henshaw Henry Wetherbee
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It mattersvery little, however, whether these sculptures were intended as ottersor not, the main point in the present connection being that they cannothave been intended as manatees. Before leaving the subject of the manatee, attention may be called to acurious fact in connection with the Cincinnati Tablet, "of which awood-cut is given in The Ancient Monuments" (p. 275, Fig. 195). If thereverse side as there shown be compared with the same view as presentedby Short in The North Americans of Ant...iquity, p. 45, or in MacLean'sMound-Builders, p. 107, a remarkable discrepancy between the two will beobserved. [Illustration: Fig. 12. --Cincinnati Tablet. (Back. ) From Squireand Davis. ] In the former, near the top, is indicated what appears to be a shapelessdepression, formless and unmeaning so far as its resemblance to anyspecial object is concerned. The authors remark of this side of thetablet, "The back of the stone has three deep longitudinal grooves, andseveral depressions, evidently caused by rubbing, --probably produced insharpening the instrument used, in the sculpture.
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