Lacey,
I also found it interesting about the “Snake Goddess” because Evans new what the original look of the statue was but after it broke along with some of the other artifacts, I just don’t see why he felt the need to have the statue reconstructed in his own way. When he could have just remade it the way it was and still claimed it to be the “Snake Goddess”. As you said it really does make it hard to not look at their findings with a doubtful eye.