Arizona republican., 1894-11-18
A HUMAN FACE
Carved by an Artist of Another
 Age.
A Curious Discovery Which Will Be of Interest to ArchaeolO-
 RiStS.

MT. W. R. Ford, farmer living six miles west of the city, has made dis covery which will create stir among archaeologists. It is also likely to lend additional light to studies of the early habitation of this part of the country, only traces of which are seen in the ancient canals and discoveries of pot tery.
 Last Friday while at work on his farm MT. Ford picked up two small ob- jee,s which appeared to be bits of dirty glass or semi-transparent stone. His attention was attracted only by their nearly circular shape which resembled that of button. Brushing the dirt from one of them he imagined he saw 8 human face traced upon it. He examined it more intently and found it was human face which could have been produced only by great artistic skill. One side of the glass or stone lozenge for it has not yet been determined which it is, is convex i; the other is flat and extends beyond forming fange which has been broken m places. The carving is done upon the flat side, that is if the work is carving. though it may be only an inn preston made if the lozenge is glass, while it was in plas- tica state. But the marvellous cor rectness of outline of the impression or carving, whichever it may be, is the most wonderful part of it. The face is feminine. It is strictly Grecian in I contour, type accentuated by the style of the hair and the poise of the neck. The effect produced looking at the lozenge from the oval side, is cameo-like, showing 8 face overlying a face.
 The other lozenge is similar in shape but bears instead of face a rose the outline of whose leaves is as distinct as those of the face. The lozenges are nearly as large in diameter as silver dime and about an eighth of an inch in thickness.
 MT. Ford brought the one containing the face to town yesterday morning and showed it to various jewellers. All said they had never seen any work like it and believed it to have been produced by method so ancient that it he'd been lost. He was offered and refused $100 for the relic. He will send it to the Smithsonian institute for investiga- ton.
 The farm owned by Mir. Ford is rich in relics of former age. He has | large collection of stone implements of | various kinds and other evidences of an earlier civilization, but these are of an entirely different character than his re- cent discovery. He believes that his l farm occupies the site of ruined city of which SO many evidences have been discovered in that and other parts of the valley. That those curious lozenges were handed down from period when art and civilization fourished and came at last to be mingled with the ruder implements and ornaments of the semi civilization of the Aztecs.
 Whoever carved that face or whoever made the die that impressed it knew something of the art of Greece when the gods were no farther from men than the top of Olympus. The eolu- tion of the problem lies with the arcbaeologists who will have to pass upon the genulneness of the relic. They will still be in doubt as to whether it was brought here from the east, whether the skill which made it was developed here or whether the ancient artist had been waited east ward across the Pacific when western Europe was in a condition of wild say agery and when the sun of civilization had not yet thrown his first rays upon the land where Colum bus was born.