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AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
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THE ANCIENT INDIAN POTTERY OF MARAJ Ó, BRAZIL. 
BY PROFESSOR CH. FRED. HARTT. 
Fig. 62 (Face). 3 Fig. 63 (Back of Head). 
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Head of Idol, Marajo. 
Tne existence of Indian burial places at various localities, in 
the Valley of the Amazonas, in which the dead were interred 
in earthen vases or pots, seems to have long been known. Von 
Martius* mentions the occurrence of these vases near Manáos, 
at Fonte Bôa and Serpa, on the Rio das Trombetas, and elsewhere. 
He besides incidentally refers} to the recent discovery of large 
collections of them at a place on the Island of Marajé, or Johannes, 
ur Ethnographie Amerika’s zumal Brazilien, p. 440. 
t Op. cit., p. 178. 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by the PEABODY ACADEMY oF 
SCIENCE, in the Office of the Librarian of Gonera, at Washington; 
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