Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . d fragments of vessels deposited as usual with the dead, and the 122 EARTHENWARE OF surface layers were filled with sherds disseminated as if forming a part of thematerial used in building the mound. Three small vessels were found near the head of a childs skeleton and asidefrom these and two other pieces, one of which was perforated, the pottery depositedwith the dead was in fragments and, from the fact that few pieces were found thatcould be joined together, would seem to have been fragmentary when occurrence of fragm
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . d fragments of vessels deposited as usual with the dead, and the 122 EARTHENWARE OF surface layers were filled with sherds disseminated as if forming a part of thematerial used in building the mound. Three small vessels were found near the head of a childs skeleton and asidefrom these and two other pieces, one of which was perforated, the pottery depositedwith the dead was in fragments and, from the fact that few pieces were found thatcould be joined together, would seem to have been fragmentary when occurrence of fragments modified in shape before consignment with the deadwould seem to indicate that their employment was probably not, exclusively atleast, as representatives of the actual vessels ordinarily used in burial, but intendedto subserve some other superstitious end. Some of these pieces were broken intorude triangular shapes and many are so proportioned as to suggest the shape of aspear or arrow point, as seen in Fig. 7. The practice of substituting imitation or.
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