Bearded man head profile looking left where the man's beard is also a bird form. The tip of man's beard is the tip of the bird's beak.
The bird's "eye" also serves as the man's "mouth" in the depiction.
The man's "nose and forehead" may be seen as a depiction of a mammoth front profile, with the tip of the man's "nose" also being the tip of the mammoth "trunk."
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A sculpture from the "Old Route 66 Zoo" site number 23JP1222, Missouri, has also been interpreted as having a human face depiction where the man's chin (beard) is also a bird. The anthropomorphic head profile is seen facing right in the first photo. When the sculpture is rotated 180 degrees, the "chin" or "beard" of the man is seen to depict a perched bird (photo at right above).
The find locations of the Arkansas and Missouri sculpture examples featured here are about 150 miles apart.
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Side 2 of the Mammoth Springs Arkansas sculpture has a couple of areas which invoke bird likenesses
View of side 1 with bearded man and bird visible in top half of the stone
Side 2 with illustration of interpreted forms. A turkey head at top and a smaller bird at bottom with human breasts including nipples.
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