The Head In the summer of 1992, a carved and painted sandstone head was found alongside a pile of sherds from a broken vessel and a heap of animal bone. The head is about 15 cm high and 9 cm in diameter, is roughly cylindrical, and is delicately sculptured. It is painted with a blue-black pigment in parallel vertical lines on the face. There is a small dotted circle on the chin. Orange-red pigment was painted inside the open mouth. Striations on the unfinished neck indicate that the head was placed in a hole (in a log? in a sandstone or wooden body? in the ground?).
The debris and head were found in a stratum immediately above the last of the anthroseds, although blobs of this stuff were adhering to the neck. The pottery vessel is a example of a yet-to-be-identified variety of late Effigy Mound ceramics. This style and radiocarbon dates place the pot and the head at about A.D. 1100-1200.
