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in a light box with handles and, by courteous consent of J. C. Morrison, Esq., 

 District Superintendent of the Pullman Palace Car Company, New Orleans, the 

 box was brought North by us in the sleeping car on our return. A good half-tone 

 representation of the bones as they appear in the vessel, looking down, is given 

 in Fig. 25. 



Vessels W and X. — Vessel X, of the usual receptacle type, having loop 

 handles, is 9.7 inches high and 14.2 inches across at its widest part. It contains a 

 pile of bones probably belonging to two infants whose skulls lie on top. One shell 

 bead was visible among the bones which were not removed but were glued in place. 

 On Vessel X, the aperture down, was Vessel W, a bowl 13 inches in maximum 

 diameter and 6.5 inches high, having incised and punctate decoration as shown in 

 Fig. 26. 



Vessels Y, Z, AA, BB, CC. — These vessels, found as shown in Fig. 27, consti- 

 tute one of the most interesting urn-burials ever met with by us. 



Vessel BB (Fig. 28), of the receptacle 

 type, 17.7 inches in maximum diameter 

 and 12.2 inches in height, contained parts 

 of an infant's skeleton in anatomical order, 

 though the skull and certain other bones 

 were missing. Shell beads were in asso- 

 ciation. 



BB was capped by a vessel (Z), inver- 

 ted. AA and Y also inverted, the lower 

 part of their rims resting against BB, were 

 placed obliquely, so as nearly to cover Ves- 

 sel Z. 



A small vessel (CC), height, 2.5 inches, 

 diameter of body, 4.3 inches, lay on its end 

 in the earth with part of its rim pressing 

 against the lower portion of Vessel BB. 

 Vessel CC, of very pour material, is 

 in the shape of a bowl with rude incised decoration and handles roughly repre- 

 senting the head and tail of a bird. Portions of the vessel have crumbled away. 

 From the end of bill to tip of tail the diameter is 7 inches. 



Vessel AA is a bowl of red ware. Its maximum diameter is 12.8 inches ; its 



height, 6.6 inches. Its somewhat flaring rim has a series of <^ <(_ incised on its 



inner surface, making spaces left bare and filled with red coloring matter alternately. 



Vessel Z is the counterpart of Vessel AA, with the exception of being 1 inch 



less in height (Fig. 29). 



Vessel Y, with basal perforation, is of the receptacle type, though used as a 

 surmounting vessel. It is 12.5 inches in maximum diameter and 8.6 inches in 

 height. The ornamentation differs from the usual upright or loop handles, as is 

 shown in Fig. 30. 



