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relation. Obviously the vases would be a receptacle of the food, and 

 not only the food, but the various articles and trinkets that found a 

 place among the donations of friends to the dead. 



There would thus be established the fact that the use of vases 

 among the Indians was analogous to that of the burial urn of the 

 Ancients, which not only received the ashes of the departed after 

 the burning, but a variety of articles; rings, precious stones, gold and 

 silver ornaments, utensils for the toilet and other purposes, and in 

 certain cases, as the Hydriataphia informs us, among burial urns dug 

 up in Denmark, instruments of recreation and amusement were dis- 

 covered. 



