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that the ghosts of the departed carried with them to 
ghost-land the ghosts of these utensils and weapons. This 
might, therefore, quite naturally account for the presence 
of this finer pottery with and among the burial jars. And 
secondly — though this is a mere suggestion — it was the 
known custom of certain American tribes of jar-burierSj to 
place the coarse vessels which formed the immediate depo- 
sitory of the bones of the dead within finer and more orna- 
mental vessels, and then to bury the whole ; but the fact 
that at Enmore the vessels of finer workmanship were, 
certainly in many cases, smaller than the coarse funeral 
jars suffices to show that some of the vessels at least must 
have been deposited with, and not enclosing the dead. 
The finer of the two kinds of pottery is even more 
interesting. Of this, too, very few fragments of any 
large size have been found. The most complete of the 
vessels found is a simple bowl-shaped vessel approach- 
ing in form the food-vessel (sappoora) used by the Caribs 
and allied tribes at the present day. A small boss still 
remaining on one side of it, and certain lines on the 
fragments of its rim — which were found inside the vessel — 
seem to show that it had some sort of ornamentation. 
Various very tiny vessels — some hardly big enough 
to fit the top of one's thumb (see Plate XV, No. 4) — 
of this shape also occur ; and this is noteworthy 
owing to the fact that toy vessels, or model vessels, 
exactly similar except in size to the larger kinds, are 
found in most deposits of pottery throughout the world, 
notably in the mounds of North America. I have else- 
where* explained that the occurrence of these miniatures 
* See " Among the Indians of British Guiana," London, 1883, p 
275. 
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