. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . vessels of bark,wicker, shell, fruit shells, horn, stone, or other more archaic recep-tacles for boiling, serving, containing, and transporting. Vessels for Culin.\rv and Other Domestic Uses Primitive earthen vessels have usually a round or somewhat conicalbase, which suggests the manner of their use. Among savage raceshard, level floors weie the exception, while floors of sand or soft earthwere the rule, and under such conditions a round or conical base wouldbe most convenient. The pot in coo
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . vessels of bark,wicker, shell, fruit shells, horn, stone, or other more archaic recep-tacles for boiling, serving, containing, and transporting. Vessels for Culin.\rv and Other Domestic Uses Primitive earthen vessels have usually a round or somewhat conicalbase, which suggests the manner of their use. Among savage raceshard, level floors weie the exception, while floors of sand or soft earthwere the rule, and under such conditions a round or conical base wouldbe most convenient. The pot in cooking was generally set directly on 26 ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES [ the fire, and was kept in position by the fuel or other supports placedabout its sides. This is illustrated in plate ii, a copy of the origi-nal of plate XV of Hariofs New Found Land of Virginia, now pre-. FiG. 1—Indian women using earthen vessels in making eassine. From Lafitau, J. F., Moeurs dessauvages ameriquains, vol. ii, i>lale v, figun 1. served in the British Museum. London. A curious specimen of earlycolonial illustration, depicting a number of women preparing a cere-monial drink called cassine in earthen vessels, is reproduced fromLafitau in tigure 1. Boiling by means of heated stones cast into the
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