. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 9—Rectitngular burial casketof earthenware, Fig. 10—Earthen vessel containing bones ofchildren, .\labama (Moore). accustomed to the practice of burial of ashes in cinerary urns amongeastern nations, were prone to discover traces of similar customs here. 38 ABOEIGINAL POTTERY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES [ and perhaps made statements on insufficient evidence. It is true, how-ever, that the dead were burned in many sections of the country, andthat the ashes or rather, perh
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 9—Rectitngular burial casketof earthenware, Fig. 10—Earthen vessel containing bones ofchildren, .\labama (Moore). accustomed to the practice of burial of ashes in cinerary urns amongeastern nations, were prone to discover traces of similar customs here. 38 ABOEIGINAL POTTERY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES [ and perhaps made statements on insufficient evidence. It is true, how-ever, that the dead were burned in many sections of the country, andthat the ashes or rather, perhaps, the charred remnants of ])ones wereplaced in such receptacles as were at hand for burial. The burial ofthe disarticulated bones of the dead, especially of children, in earthen
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