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construct pottery by es te cylinders of clay, as has been 
above described in the c the Florida potte though Mr. 
Barber states that they | have lost the art of glazin 
the St. Louis meeting of the American Association, August, 
1878.— Henry Gillman, Waldo, Florida. 
AN INDIAN BurIAL—FuUNERAL CEREMONIES AT LOWER LAKE, 
CALIFORNIA.—A fter the grave (a round hole of about five feet in 
diameter and the same in depth) had been prepared under a brush 
house, adjoining the cabin of the dead Indian, the body was care- 
fully carried out in a blanket and quilt, and placed alongside the 
opening. The medicine man then began the funeral rites, which, 
in part, consisted of blowing a small whistle, and the shaking and 
rattling of split sticks, which made a peculiar noise like nothing 
e 
dead, and exhorted the living. is language was accompanied 
with expressive gestures. He pointed to the sky, to the ground, 
to each of the four cardinal points, and, finally, into the grave it- 
self, conveying the idea that after we had lived and enjoyed the 
things of this world, and wandered far and near over the earth, the 
time would come when a final separation of body and spirit must 
take place; and while the spirit ascended to regions above, the 
body must go into the ground and remain there, at least for a 
time. He then took the small whistle used by him and placed it 
in the mouth of the body, after which, with closed eyes and up- 
lifted hand, he engaged in an invocation of some kind. 
At the close of this, Rosa, the wife of the dead man, came from 
the house and cast herself full length upon the body. She re- 
moved the covering from Joe's breast, and, after she had laid her 
head upon it the covering was replaced, and her voice could be 
heard in low tones, as if bidding the departed a last farewell. 
After this a feather bed was brought out from the house and laid 
in the grave, the body was placed upon it in a half-sitting posi- - 
tion; his gun, hat, shoes, some food, a basket containing silver 
coin, Indian money, beads, and feathers, were also put in with 
him. On top of all-was thrown a straw bed. Rosa again began 
her lamentations, and, with a loud scream, tried to no — 
‘into the grave, but was withheld by a stout young 
held her in her arms until the grave was filled. The Gest ie 
handsful of dirt were thrown into the grave by the squaws; the 
men, then, with shovels, filled it up. After the dirt had been re- | 
laced, one of the squaws, with her hands, smoothed it over and 
obliterated all the tracks made by the workers. The medicine 
man ane circles the grave three times, stopping each time a the 
