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 64 ABORIGINAL MONUMENTS

found, were filled with small calcined’ pearls,—origi

constituting a brilliant circlet, contrasting, in a striking manner, with the dark stone in which they were inserted.* The ornamental lines upon the face are deeply cut, and probably represent tattooing. Those radiating from the mouth ee readily be supposed to represent a curling moustache and beard. The mouth of this miniature head

s somewhat compressed and the brow seems contracted, giving it an aspect of severity which is not fully conveyed by the engravi The eyes are prominent and open.

In the same mound with

the above was found another head, of entirely different outline, of which a profile is here presented.

The eyes'seem closed, and the whole expression of the face is that of a repose like death. It was probably de- signed to represent a female: face.

ed of this figure, and the similar ramge of
 * Tt is impossible to overlook the coincidence between the fillet of reat

pearls displayed upon the fore