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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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that sincere naturalattachment which leads even the uncivilized parent towrestle with death for the preservation of her buriedchild. Three other instances of similar inhumationshave chanced within the writers observation, all ofthem occurring in mounds on the coast. It will beremarked that this sepulchral-urn is not unlike thosedescribed by Mr. Atwater and figured on pages 227and 229 in the first volume of the ArchseolooqaAmericana. Burial-vases enclosing human bones haveoccasionally been found in the, grave-mounds of Ten-nessee, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and South Caro-lina. In ancient Greece it was customary to depositthe ashes or bones of the dead in a cinerary of bakedclay, bronze, or gold, and recent investigations showthat this method of protecting the dust of the departedwas not confined to the limits of classic Hellas. Thevessel (Fig. 2, Plate XXVII.) taken from an earth-mound near Sparta, in Hancock County, is fourteeninches higdi and rather more than fourteen inches in
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J? /o AM PH0T0-UTH06KAPMC CQ SX10S30/TKES PROCESS. VARIOUS FORMS OF ANCIENT POTTERY. 457 diameter. Near the rim we have a repetition of thecircular or bead ornamentation noticed on the burial-vase. The ornamentation of the entire outer surfaceis so varied and elaborate that we are somewhat at aloss to understand precisely how it was done. If thispot was moulded in a basket, the pattern of the en-closing wicker-work was unusually elaborate and ar-tistic. As in the case of the sepulchral urn, all theseimpressions were formed while the clay was still soft.There are no indications of the use of a sharp-pointedimplement as in vessel Number 3, Plate XXV1L, whereall the lines and figures were carved after the clay hadbecome hard. Fig. 4, Plate XXVIL, may be regarded as typicalof a numerous class of flat-bottomed jars designed, ashas already been intimated, as receptacles for variousarticles, such as pounded maize, bear-oil, walnut-oil,honey, etc. It is entirely plain both within and with-out

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