be noticed that in all the instances where the human head is rep- 

 resented the face looks into the dish while all the birds' heads, 

 and the head of the mammal, look outwards. (No. 7717 has the 

 appearance of looking into the dish, but this rude head has a 



portion broken from the outside which probably would have 

 better represented the bill of a bird pointed that way.) 



The several most perfect of these head dishes measure as fol- 

 lows, the first figure representing the height, and the second, the 

 diameter, across the opening: No. 7730, 4-7 by 9 inches; No. 

 7718, 3-8 by 8-5 inches; No. 7717,3-5 by 7-6 inches; No. 7719, 

 4-2 by 7-6 inches ; No. 771 G, 3-2 by 6-8 inches ; No. 7743, 3-1 by 

 7-8 inches ; No. 7723, 3-1 by 3-5 inches. 



Col. Foster, on p. 246 of his work (reproduced here on p. 407), 

 figures a " drinking cup" from a stone grave in Perry County, Mo. 

 This cup is of the same design and pattern as No. 7730, am! it may 

 not be venturing too much if we conclude, from this very peculiar 

 form of pottery, that the same race made the article found in tb< 

 ancient cemetery of Perry County and those found in the mound m 

 New Madrid in the same State. If this should be substantiated 

 by further evidence we shall have the means of identifying the 

 general cemeteries of the moundbuilders, or, at least, of that par- 

 ticular race who erected the mounds of the southwest. It has 

 long been urged that the moundbuilders must have had other 

 depositories for their dead than the mounds themselves, for, as 

 numerous as the latter are, they do not often contain more than 



