. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . led in with oblique, reticulated lines, passes around the chinand along the jaws. The ears are perforated as in the other , andthe septum of the nose is partly broken awaj^ as if it had once held aring. A perforated knob has occupied the top of the forehead as inthe other examples. The face is coated with a light yellowish-graywash, and the remainder of the surface is red. Four additional examples of the deaths head vases are shown inplate xxxii. They present varied characteristics in det
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . led in with oblique, reticulated lines, passes around the chinand along the jaws. The ears are perforated as in the other , andthe septum of the nose is partly broken awaj^ as if it had once held aring. A perforated knob has occupied the top of the forehead as inthe other examples. The face is coated with a light yellowish-graywash, and the remainder of the surface is red. Four additional examples of the deaths head vases are shown inplate xxxii. They present varied characteristics in detail, but all cor-respond closely in the more important features of form and expression. TOBACCO PIPES In the East and Northeast the clay tobacco pipes of the aborigineswere often superior in execution, design, and decoration to the ordi-nary utensils of clay associated with them. In the central and south-western sections pipes were for the most part remarkably rude andwithout grace of outline, and generally without embellishment, while BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XXIX.
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