Show Museum Owns Early Native Head Remains of Tepexpan Believed Discovered The head of a man who may have been the first human being in the new world to leave any physical remains has been reconstructed at the Smithsonian This is Tepexpan His skull was found a few vears ago near Mexico City in earth strata which also contained fossil bones of X the owner actually was a contemporary of thise he probably lived about years Reconstruction of the head from the bare accomplished by Leo Washington was a job requiring great skill and the compel of artist and In modeling the particularly the and the the artist covered the surface of the with plastic materials in conformity with average determined by measurements of It was to du some particularly ss to the shape of the and the hair U entirely conventional It is the resulting head and face represent fairly well the man himself as he appeared in He was not a and rather typically a southwestern His placed among modern Indian would be difficult t In some reacts it Is mere primitive than the but by no means oi Jie limits of |