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certain kinds and portions of their intricate terra-cotta fictile 
wares. | 
In conclusion, it is also worthy of remark that a knowledge of 
the process of modeling in clay upon forms seems to have been 
known to most all of the savage and barbarian nations of America 
who were acquainted with the art of pottery, and more especially 
to those of our American aborigines, who occupied the middle 
status of barbarism. Many of the beautiful earthenwares from the 
mounds of Louisiana, Missouri and those parts of our Western 
. States at one time occupied by the mound-builders suggest the 
use of forms or shapes. Specimens of ancient water bottles from 
British Guiana and the (long-necked) bottle-shape jars and vases 
from the mounds of Indiana, Tennessee and Missouri in the Wil- 
liam S. Vaux and Haldemann collections, prove the truth of 
these assertions. 
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EDITORS: A. S. PACKARD, JR., AND E. D. COPE. 
E pur se muove. The Philadelphia Academy has added 
two professors to its corps, and, it is said, will soon add a third. 
As the gentlemen selected are all capable, original investigators, 
important progress has thus been made. In fact, the organization 
adopted eight years ago may now be said to have the active sup 
port of the members of the academy. 
The institution having at length acquired a Sig 
new questions arise. Having escaped the Scylla of pan 
must avoid the Charybdis of being pressed into service which 
cept upon piece forms, and that the pieces modeled thereon were united pea 
semi-dry or green state. The clay balls in the interior of the legs and ere gihe 
are the best proof of this assertion, as they must have been placed therein ashe 
jointure of the vase, before the firing process (see Fig. 4, Plate — n 
tion of this vase is given, showing the position of the clay balls "m disks 
of earthenware that form the body). It will be seen that these 16% eee pel 
are united together and so fashioned as to leave a space "a ii 
lets of clay were placed. There is no connection Tanai the ding from the body 
center of vitality, 
into the legs. The legs, in their turn, are perforated by smal ie advanced 
thus allowing the heated vapors to escape during the firing. P 
by certain writers that the clay balls in the interiors of the after the fring, Ë 
other hollow terra-cottas) were detached by a sharp cutting mn 
an absurdity which no careful student of aboriginal American 
