me that he obtained it from Juan Ibafieg, of Ataco, Salvador, 
near which place 1t is said to have been found. Mosonyt 
had shown the vase to Dr. Saville in New York and after- 
wards brought it to Washington and presented it to me for 
the National Museum. Dr. Saville had let it pass, feeling 
thet it might bey in part at least, the work of one of the 
very skilled pojters of that comtry. He stated at the 
tame of his visit to me that if genuine it ought to be 
worth $500.00, but that Mosonyi paid $50.00 for it. His 
thought was that the plain cylindrical part is genuine, 
but that the ornament may have been afterwards added. 
This, however, is manifestly a wrong view, since the vessel __ 
has been broken into many pieces and very skillfully put 
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together, the crackings extending alike over the cylin-« 
drical body and the applied ornement. There is, t 
fore, no possible question that the vessel is not an 
original ancient burial piece. 
/ National iuseum, 
Getober 11, 1920. 
