. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ndsome vessel illustrated in plate cxvi was uncovered by theplow on Ossabaw island, Chatham county, Georgia. The negroes whodiscovered it at once reburied it. The manager of the place, learningof this, dug it up again. Within the vase were the bones of a child,with a few beads and ornaments. The bones were reinterred ])y thenegroes, who feared that ])ad luck would follow wanton disturbanceof the dead. A bowl, parts only of which were saved, was invertedover the top of the urn, and had prevente
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ndsome vessel illustrated in plate cxvi was uncovered by theplow on Ossabaw island, Chatham county, Georgia. The negroes whodiscovered it at once reburied it. The manager of the place, learningof this, dug it up again. Within the vase were the bones of a child,with a few beads and ornaments. The bones were reinterred ])y thenegroes, who feared that ])ad luck would follow wanton disturbanceof the dead. A bowl, parts only of which were saved, was invertedover the top of the urn, and had prevented the earth from accumulat-ing within. The specimens were acquired by Mr William Harden, ofSavannah, who presented tliem to the Bureau of American vase corresponds fully in material, shape, and finish witli othersfrom various parts of the Appalachian region. The stamped pattern Hnriiit. Thomas, A brief «nd tnlt report of tlic new loimd Ijiml of Virginia, Frankfort, 1-590, pi. XV. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT PL. CXV f:s>«!!*«*S^**SS».^-^V:*:.::rr-
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