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These pots were buried with the dead and, like wreaths a 

 our funerals, are supposed to be evidences of love and respect 

 of friends and relations. 



They vary in shape and size. Some are portraits, some are 

 animals, birds and fishes : the turtle, the owl, and men and 

 women are here. Some laugh and others are full of dignity ; 

 one is the face of a man winking with one eye, one face is asleep, 

 it may be the sleeping sickness, while others show signs of mis- 

 fortune and of disease ; it has been surmised that such indicate 

 the cause of death. Others seem to provide for the comfort of 

 the departed in the spirit world, some for food, others for water ; 

 others have copper and silver pellets, probably for fare money at 

 the ferry. No stamped coinage has been found. The copper 

 and silver is hermetically sealed in the false bottoms of the jugs 

 and vases, for the bottoms have been baked into position. 



Some jugs have a whistle in the spout ; pandean pipes are 

 represented, and one is the figure of a man playing a flute, and 

 there are bugle horns made of terra cotta that make a pleasant 

 sound. One figure shows a man with cymbals. 



Weapons are not much in evidence ; one man has a mace, 

 and the spear and shield seem to be the only weapons. Neither 

 bows nor arrows have been discovered. No horses are to be 

 found. There is a beast like a hornless antelope. Birds are 

 somewhat abundant with several owls and a bat-like beast, and 

 stags and frogs are imitated. The bugles end with a dog's head. 

 There is a walrus, and something like a Welsh heraldic lion is 

 biting a man. Parrots are represented, and also ducks and fish 

 are here. One head is a learned doctor with a plumed head 

 dress ; one — probably the finest — is believed to represent a 

 Chimu Chief or a wealthy law giver ; one represents a seal eating 

 a fish, and known and unknown effigies of the animal kingdom 

 are in this collection. 



The faces represented are doubtless portraits, and look 

 English or German. Some would be taken as easy-going 

 Dutchmen sitting in the market place at Haarlem, waiting for 

 custom ; broad faces and intellectual, the workmanship being 



