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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I924 



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Although the visits of Dr. Fewkes to Tennessee and Alabama were 

 much limited in time they have called attention to one or two instruc- 

 tive problems which await new observations for solution. Urn burial 

 appears not to have been mentioned in the extended accounts of 

 mortuary customs found in early documentary and historical descrip- 



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Fig. 118. — Prehistoric objects from Kittitas County, Washington. 



(a) Pipe. Length i^"; diameter Y^" . 



(b) Enlarged incised decoration of pipe (a). 



(c) Stone pipe. Length nVi"; diani. M". Diani. of ferrule at one end i%". 



(d) Carved bone ornament or implement. Length 6>4". Diam. at wide end i". 



tion of the Creeks. We know the bunched skeletons were placed in 

 baskets for the bone house and later removed and buried in mounds, 

 and may readily suppose the urn took the place of the basket, but are 

 we justified in this supposition? Furthermore, as urn burial is not 

 the common method of disposal of the dead, this exceptional custom 



