Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . urve, a r e,nine inches. The sides, c a, e d, slope regu-larly, at a given angle. The body of the altaris burned throughout, though in a greater de-gree within the basin, where it was so hard asto resist the blows of a heavy hatchet, the in-strument rebounding as if struck upon a basin, or hollow of the altar, was filled evenfull with fine dry ashes, intermixed with whichwere some fragments of pottery, of an excellentfinish and elegant model, ornamented with taste-ful carvings on the exterior. One of the vases,taken in fr
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . urve, a r e,nine inches. The sides, c a, e d, slope regu-larly, at a given angle. The body of the altaris burned throughout, though in a greater de-gree within the basin, where it was so hard asto resist the blows of a heavy hatchet, the in-strument rebounding as if struck upon a basin, or hollow of the altar, was filled evenfull with fine dry ashes, intermixed with whichwere some fragments of pottery, of an excellentfinish and elegant model, ornamented with taste-ful carvings on the exterior. One of the vases,taken in fragments from this mound, has beenvery nearly restored. The accompanying sketch(Figure 9) presents its outlines and the char-acter of its ornaments. Its height is six, itsgreatest diameter eight inches. The materialis hardly distinguishable from that composingthe pottery of the ancient Peruvians ; and inrespect to finish, it is fully equal to the best Pe-ruvian specimens. A few convex copper discs,much resembling the bosses used upon harnesses,were also 9.—VASE FROM TUE ilOUNDS. Above the deposit of ashes, and covering theentire basin, was a layer of silvery or opaquemica, in sheets, overlapping each other; andimmediately over the centre of the basin washeaped a quantity of burned human bones, prob-ably the amount of a single skeleton, in frag-ments. The position of these is indicated by oin the section. The layer of mica and calcinedbones, it should be remarked to prevent mis-apprehension, were peculiar to this individualmound, and were not found in any other of theclass. It will be seen by the section that, at a pointabout two feet below the surface of the mound,a human skeleton was found. It was placed alittle to the left of the centre, with the head tothe east, and was so much decayed as to render it impossible to extract a single bone the skeleton, as shown in the section, theearth and outer layer of gravel and pebbles werebroken up and intermixed. Th
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