A number of stone statues of the human figure have been unearthed from Georgia to Tennessee, varying in height from three or four inches to something over twenty. They are all of the crudest description, and so far as any resemblance to the type of man who made them is concerned are absolutely valueless. They are undoubtedly human forms, that is all; not another characteristic, except sex, indicated by breasts, is presented. They are mostly in a squatting posture and on one or two there seems to be a suggestion of the hair dressed behind. Effigy bottles of earthenware from Tennessee are similarly crude and primitive. There is little, therefore, in the whole Mississippi valley or on the Atlantic coast, in the line of carving or sculpture, that could not have been executed by Amerinds that have been known to our race, many of them living in the same localities where the art remains have been found. The superlative rank awarded Moundbuilder art is unwarranted. [Illustration: BIRD-SHAPED EARTHEN BOWL, ARKANSAS.] Directing our attention now to still another region, we find in the South-west a vast deal that is absorbingly interesting. Fortunately the people were, many of them, still there when the first Spaniards came into the country in 1540, so that we have data to prevent the attributing the works found there to some mysterious race. It has been attempted in the case of the “Cliff-dwellers,” but the investigations of competent ethnologists have effectually settled that matter, and checked the romantic tendency except in the case of a few who will not learn. The ethnographic condition of the South-west since we have known it probably represents also what prevailed in the Mississippi region, that is, _a number of different stocks existing in different stages of culture_, distributed in patches, not uniformly. [Illustration: SHELL MASK, VIRGINIA.] All of them pitched their camps or built their houses as expediency dictated, and when cause arose to render them dissatisfied with their site, whether cliff-house, village, or camp, they moved to a more desirable place, leaving behind what they could not easily carry, as well as their houses. Thus in the course of a long time the area presented the appearance from the numerous remains of having a larger population than was really the case; though I may add that I believe the population was at one time somewhat greater than has usually been admitted by the best ethnologists. These various stocks carried on their daily avocations, and when the results were in some indestructible material, many of them were preserved to us, which, taken in connection with the productions of the modern tribes, give an excellent and correct impression of the life and occupations of the inhabitants extending far back into the past. [Illustration: MOKI SCULPTURAL SKILL WITH THE HUMAN FIGURE Terra cotta Wood Terra cotta ]