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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2017
Recently Noel Morss published several recumbent figurines (American Antiquity, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1952) and pointed out the area of distribution of this type giving examples of Mexican as well as North American origin. His interpretation was that they represent children strapped to their cradles.
As early as 1949 I published, in the first volume of “Selected Papers of XXIX International Congress of Americanists” in New York, a paper on the same subject, which, apparently, Noel Morss had not seen. I had assembled several similar specimens originating from a vast area extending from Ecuador to the Valley of Mexico and to Colima. The new point which Morss (who has never heard of kindred subjects in South America) makes in his paper, is the inclusion of North America in the same complex. The Nashville specimen (Morss, 1952, Fig. 74) differs only in size (it is 9 inches long). All the other figurines quoted by both of us are less than half that length.
1 Lehmann (Henri). Le pcrsonnage couché sur le dos: sujet commun dans l’archeologie du Mexique et de l’Equateur. T.I., pp. 291–98.
2 Vaillant (George C.). Excavations in Ticoman. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. 32, part 2. New York 1931: pl. LXIV, p. 363.