. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 19—Toy-like funeral offerings imitating animal forms. Florida (Moore). example is shown in figure Kl. and two excellent specimens appearin jjlate xliii. In some other regions, notably in Florida, rude imita-tions of , hardly capable ofbearing up their own weight, weremade and cast into the grave (seefigure 17). With these were alsofigurines made in the rudest way,representing many forms of animaland vegetal life, sliown in figures 18and 19. It is possible that thesewere offeriugs
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 19—Toy-like funeral offerings imitating animal forms. Florida (Moore). example is shown in figure Kl. and two excellent specimens appearin jjlate xliii. In some other regions, notably in Florida, rude imita-tions of , hardly capable ofbearing up their own weight, weremade and cast into the grave (seefigure 17). With these were alsofigurines made in the rudest way,representing many forms of animaland vegetal life, sliown in figures 18and 19. It is possible that thesewere offeriugs made after the man-ner of the ancient Egyptians, whoplaced images of slaves and variousiiiiplements and utensils in the tomb,with the idea that they would in someway be of service to the dead in thefuture modeling of various life forms was extensively practiced by.
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