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concave on the upper ends. They were distributed in groups along the body, and 
were so poorly fired that many of them fell apart on removal. Such as were saved 
range between 5 and 4 inches іп length. One of these objects is shown in Fig. 9. 
In the Rose Mound and in other dwelling-sites along the St. Francis we found 
objects similar to these lying singly, but never associated with bones. 
Presumably this type of object was used as a support for receptacles placed in 
fires, to raise them from the ground in order to give the fire full play on the surface 
of the base. 
Doctor Koch-Griinberg' figures and describes sup- 
ports almost exactly similar to these, except the supports 
are hollow, as in use among modern Indians of north- 
western Brazil to hold vessels from the ground while 
cooking is going on. 
We are indebted to Mr. Charles C. Willoughby for the 
information that Dr. W. C. Farabee brought to Peabody 
Museum, Cambridge, Mass., from his expedition among 
Indians of the Upper Amazon region, clay standards 10 
to 12 inches in length, which were used as supports for a 
receptacle in which earthenware vessels were fired. 
Burial No. 10, a child, had ten vessels, some placed 
on, some set within, others. Near the head were two 
shell ear-plugs and three beads of shell. 
Burial No. 15, in addition to four vessels of earthen- 
ware, had a single shell bead at the neck, and two rude, 
discoidal stones, each about 3.5 inches in diameter, made, 
one from limestone, the other from sandstone. 
Burial No. 17, an adult extended on the back, had, 
besides four pottery vessels, a ball 
of hematite at the left ankle, and 
two tubes of bone, badly broken. 
Burial No. 19, а child extended on the back, had three 
vessels of earthenware; a number of shell beads at the neck, 
of considerable size and evidently wrought from the columella 
of a marine shell (/7/gur); two ear-plugs of shell; two 
small, flat, shell ornaments, one triangular with one and 
Fic. 9.—Earthenware su pport. 
With Burial No.3. Rose Mound. 
Ега. 10.—Ornament of shell, three perforations at opposite ends, respectively, the other 
Witl dab Na. 19. Ше e Pau 
NU uunc = elliptical, squared at the ends, each of which was perforated ; 
a circular ornament of shell with a perforation through a 
portion which projects at right angles and another perforation through the body 
of the ornament; another circular ornament of shell with three perforations, 
side by side, running through the base of a projecting part (Fig. 10). At the left 
of the pelvis was a “сей” of quartzite, 3.5 inches in length. Shell beads were at 
1 . . У 4 Or 
“ Zwei Jahre unter den Indianern.” Vol. IL p. 207, Fig. 125, 
36 JOURN. А. N. 8. PHILA., VOL. XIV. 
