THE ANCIENT INDIAN POTTERY OF MARAJO, BRAZIL. 261 
and not so high as the main island. Both were evidently raised 
artificially, and are full of burial vases and pottery of all kinds. 
The vases, which are about three feet in height, are, in some places, 
buried as many as three or four above one another, but they are 
more or less scattered. ‘The waves have worn away the edges of 
the island making a sloping shore full of broken burial jars and 
prea strewn over with fragments of pottery. 
Mr. Barnard made no excavations. He, however, collected speci- 
mens, in a more or less broken state, of what was at hand. His 
collection consists entirely of pottery. Bones were very rare, and 
very much broken up. I regret exceedingly, that of these re- 
Fig. 64. 
Indian Burial Jars, Marajo. 
mains, none were brought home, but I may state here, that an ex- 
pedition is on foot to thoroughly explore this, as well as some of 
the other localities. 
f jars or vases used for burial purposes (ygacaua, * ygacaua- 
oct, camuti, Lingoa geral) there are two in the collection, large 
specimens which show quite well the form, together with a number 
of fragments. The two more perfect specimens (Figs. 64 and 65), 
are of the same general shape, but they differ in the style of 
ornamentation. Both consist substantially of two truncated cones 
united by their bases, the apicial angle of the lower cone beii 
much more obtuse than that of the upper, so that the greatest 
* Ygacaua (igagaba of T pi 3s na: . ly means a larg waterpot 
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