Offered For Sale is 1 of 2 Exceptionally Fine and Extremely Rare Well Documented 30+ Pound 18 Inch Tall Tennessee Female Stone Figure. With Articles Present In Multiple Publications Dating Back To Warren K. Moorehead's "Stone Implements 1900" This Elite Museum Grade Relic Stands Within A Class Of Its Own!!! With only 88 known and document examples having ever been unearthed, fewer than a half dozen are present in private hands with the rest being housed in state and federal museums. This Fine Statue was originally discovered in 1870 at the base of the Cumberland Mountain near the headwaters of the Caney Fork River in Warren County Tennessee near McMinnville. Pictured as a drawing in Prehistoric Implements by Moorehead 1900, within the Edward Payne collection 1920's, Illinois State Archeological Society 1949 and most recently within the Central States Archeological Journal 2014 with a multiple photo presentation and full detailed history from point discovery to present. In addition this Female Stone Idol is cataloged as CSS-025 as one of the 88 known documented examples in the publication ''Speaking with the Ancestors'' Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region by Kevin E. Smith and James V. Miller (Published by The University Of Alabama). Originally collected by Edward Waldron Payne, Donald O. Boudeman, Gilbert Thrust and Stanly West. For more detailed information or an in house scheduled viewing please feel free to message us through eBay messaging system. Please Note and would just like to clarify that while Rhea County Tennessee is Clearly Written & Present on the Reverse Side, this is mistaken and mislabeled information that is believed to have been placed there in the 1920's by one of Edward Payne's assistants. True History was Documented & Recorded Much Earlier prior to 1900 as Warren County Tennessee and this is indeed where it lies.