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other articles will be illustrated. The vessels here figured 

 were all taken from the graves within the enclosure at 

 Lebanon, and are represented of one-half their actual 

 diameter (or one-quarter size). Figures 1, 2, 3, repre- 

 sent three vessels found in the grave of a child ; figure 4 

 one found in another child's grave, and figures 5, 6, 7, 8, 

 9, several of the forms obtained from the graves of adults. 

 This pottery is well made and composed of clay mixed with 



fig. 3. 



pounded shells. All the articles are black except the 

 water jar represented by figure 1, which is of a light yel- 

 low color, and when first taken out showed circular lines 

 of dark paint which, as the pigment had not been burnt 

 in, scaled off in drying the jar and can now only be faintly 

 traced. 



Another class of prehistoric remains in Tennessee con- 

 sists of the large earth mounds, two of which Mr. Put- 

 nam opened at considerable expense and labor. 



One of these, on the old Love estate, several miles 



