Manatee (_Manatus Americanus_, Cuv.) 132
11.--Manatee (_Manatus Americanus_, Cuv.) 132
12.--Cincinnati Tablet--back. From Squier and Davis 133
13.--Cincinnati Tablet--back. From Short 134
14.--Toucan from Squier and Davis 135
15.--Toucan from Squier and Davis 135
16.--Toucan from Squier and Davis 136
17.--Toucan as figured by Stevens 137
18.--Keel-billed Toucan of Southern Mexico 139
19.--Paroquet from Squier and Davis 140
20.--Owl from Squier and Davis 144
21.--Grouse from Squier and Davis 144
22.--Turkey-buzzard from Squier and Davis 145
23.--Cherry-bird 145
24.--Woodpecker 146
25.--Eagle from Squier and Davis 146
26.--Rattlesnake from Squier and Davis 147
27.--Big Elephant Mound in Grant County, Wisconsin 153
28.--Elephant Pipe. Iowa 155
29.--Elephant Pipe. Iowa 156
30.--The Alligator Mound near Granville, Ohio 159
31.--Carvings of heads 162
32.--Carvings of heads 162
33.--Carvings of heads 162
34.--Carving of head 163
35.--Carving of head 163

ANIMAL CARVINGS FROM MOUNDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.

BY H. W. HENSHAW.

INTRODUCTORY.

The considerable degree of decorative and artistic skill attained by the
so-called Mound-Builders, as evidenced by many of the relics that have
been exhumed from the mounds, has not failed to arrest the attention of
archaeologists. Among them, indeed, are found not a few who assert for
the people conveniently designated as above a degree of artistic skill
very far superior to that attained by the present race of Indians as
they have been known to history. In fact, this very skill in artistic
design, asserted for the Mound-Builders, as indicated by the sculptures
they have left, forms an important link in the chain of argument upon
which is based the theory of their difference from and superiority to
the North American Indian.

Eminent as is much of the authority which thus contends for