Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley - Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the - Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, - Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166 by Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw
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page 63 of 64 (98%)
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Third. That there is no reason for believing that the masks and
sculptures of human faces are more correct likenesses than are the animal carvings. Fourth. That the state of art-culture reached by the Mound Builders, as illustrated by their carvings, has been greatly overestimated. INDEX. Animal carvings from mounds of the Mississippi Valley, by H. W. Henshaw, 117 Bat, Carving of the, 144 Birds domesticated by Indians, 138 Buzzard, Range of the, 142 Carvings, Animal, from mounds, 117 "Cherry Bird", Carving of the, 145 Cincinnati tablet, 133 Conch shell, Range of the, 143 Coues, Dr. E., on bird carvings from mounds, 148 Cougar, Range of the, 142 Crow, Carvings of the, 136 Cushing, F. H., on Zuñi fetiches, 145 Dall, W. H., on the conch shell (_Pyrula_), 143 Eagle, Carvings of the, 146 "Elephant mound", 152 pipes, 155 |
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