. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . al association of animal features with vases in the gen-eral region, we examine the design to discover, if possible, some sug-gestion of a life concept. It would seem that the leading elements of thedesign must represent the head of some creature, and by studying thefour principal features, it is seen that they show decided analogieswith more realistic delineations of the duck observed on other vessels,and the conclusion is reached that the device is a conventional treatmentof this favorite co
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . al association of animal features with vases in the gen-eral region, we examine the design to discover, if possible, some sug-gestion of a life concept. It would seem that the leading elements of thedesign must represent the head of some creature, and by studying thefour principal features, it is seen that they show decided analogieswith more realistic delineations of the duck observed on other vessels,and the conclusion is reached that the device is a conventional treatmentof this favorite concept and that the vessel was invested with appro-priate life sjmbolism by the people to whom it belonged. A second specimen from the Tarpon Springs mound is given in plateciicf. It is quite equal to the other in delicacy of execution and ininterest, and the exquisite design shown in full in plate civli may belooked on as of the same class as the preceding and as intendedto svmbolize nothing more esoteric or mvsterious than the life idea BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGr TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT PL. CI. DECORATED VASES, TARPON SPRINGS FLORIDA PENINSULA(FREE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART, PHILADELPHIA, DIAMETER 13 INCHES) BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOQV TWENIIETH ANNUAL REPORT PL. CM
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