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ABORIGINAL POTTEKY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES [kth.ann.20 



sent the human face as it appeal's after death. So unusual is tlie sliape 

 that we are justified in assuminj!^ that the vessels wei"e made exclu- 



Fro, !8 — Toy-like funeral offerings imitating vegetal forms. Florida f^foore"). 



sively for mortuary use and consignment to the tomb. They are too 

 small to have contained bones, and we can only surmise that they were 

 intended to contain food, drink, or other kinds of offerings. An 



Fig. 19 — Toy-like funeral offerings imitating animal forms. Florida (Moore). 



example is shown in tigurc 1(1. and two e.xcellent specimens appear 

 in plate xliii. In some other regions, notably in Florida, rude imita- 

 tions of vessels, hardly capable of 

 bearing up their own weight, were 

 made and cast into the grave (see 

 figure 17). With these were also 

 figurines made in the rudest way, 

 representing many forms of animal 

 and vegetal life, shown in figures 18 

 and l'.>." It is possible that these 

 were offerings made after the man- 

 ner of the ancient Egyptians, who 

 placed images of slaves and various 

 implements and utensils in the tomb, 

 with the idea that they would in some 

 way l)e of service to the dead in the 

 future existence. 

 The modeling of various life forms was extensively practiced by 



Fig. 20— Toy-like figurine representing 

 babe in cradle. Tennessee (Thrustoni. 



"Moore, Clarence B., Certain sand mounds on the St Johns river. Florida, part i. in Journal of 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, ser. 2. vol. x. pt. 1. Phila., 1S94. 



