. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . FiG. 13—Earthenware burial urn withcover, Georgia. Fig. 14—Earthernware burial urn with bowl coverand other vessels. Alabama (Moore). ever, receptacles appear to have been shaped for the purpose; thecasket shown in figure 9 was of this class. It was obtained from aburial mound at Hales point, , and contained the bones ofan infant. Figure 10 shows the top view of a burial vase from amound in Wilcox county, Alabama, containing bones of infants. holmes] EARTHENWARE USED IN BURIAL 3V» In
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . FiG. 13—Earthenware burial urn withcover, Georgia. Fig. 14—Earthernware burial urn with bowl coverand other vessels. Alabama (Moore). ever, receptacles appear to have been shaped for the purpose; thecasket shown in figure 9 was of this class. It was obtained from aburial mound at Hales point, , and contained the bones ofan infant. Figure 10 shows the top view of a burial vase from amound in Wilcox county, Alabama, containing bones of infants. holmes] EARTHENWARE USED IN BURIAL 3V» In \-erv nuinv cases oartluii vessels, especially bowls, are foundinverted over the skull of the deceased, as shown in figure 11, and notinfrequently large fragments of earthenwarewere placed over and around the head. j)rol)-ably as a protection. The commonest form of pot Inirial isillustrated in figures 1-2, 13,1-1, and 15. Theremains were crowded into the vessel and thebowl was fitted over or into the mouth ofthis receptacle. Perhaps the most general use of vases inburial was that of contain
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