610 ON THE OCCURRENCE OF FACE URNS IN BRAZIL. 
The material of which the urn is composed is a very coarse 
clay full of sand and consequently brittle when burned. The legs _ 
and arms are broken in several places. The surface of the vase 
is moderately smooth and the greater part is without ornamen- ; 
tation. The face has received a wash of ochre yellow clay. Near 
the base are a few white lines difficult to trace out, but which 
resemble the ornament on the burial vase, Fig. 65, in my little , 
paper “ On the Pottery of Marajó,” in the Naruratist for July of a 
last year. 
The urn, as it at present exists in the Museum of Pará, contains 
part of a human skeleton, showing no trace of burning. The cra- 
nium is wanting. It is impossible now to say whether the vase 
ever contained the whole skeleton. From the small size of the 
urn I should suppose, however, that it did not. 
Senhor Penna visited, in February of this year, the locality 
where this curious urn was found and sent me a few notes on it. 
He-says that several leagues up the Rio Maracá, at a short distance 
from the river, there is an immense flat mass of friable sandstone, 
in which is a large crevice, expanding, in one place, into a large 
grotto. Near by and on a plain, to reach which it is necessary to : 
climb a steep hill covered by wood, is another small grotto lighted 
by a large opening above. On the floor of this last grotto, Senhor 
Penna found several urns, mostly broken, but of which two = d 
entire. Some of these were of the same form as that I have m 
described, but others were shaped like armadillos and tortoises 
(Jabuti), though all had human countenances. Senhor sb 
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says that all the tubular vases, like the one just described 
the organs of sex, male or female, carefully and P hye 
represented. : E 
Since the above was sent to press I have succeeded in paee 
a magnificent female gesichtsurnen from the Ilha do pa l pe 
Lake Arary, Marajé. In this urn the upper part is rounded oil 2 
to represent a head with human features. Besides this there ” 
in the collection made last winter, by my assistant, MY 
fragments of two other urns of the same class, one of W ae 
furnished with two faces on opposite sides of the urn. et 
together with the new collections will shortly be described. “al 
