PLACING OF RELICS.

The pieces of pottery, implements, and ornaments were probably buried

with the dead, pretty much as are similar objects in other parts of

America. The almost total disappearance of the human remains makes a

determination of exact relative positions impossible. The universal

testimony, however, is that all were not placed with the body, but that

some were added as the grave was filled up, being placed in the crevices

of the walls or pillars or thrown in upon the accumulating earth and

pebbles of the surface pavement. The heavy implements of stone are

rarely very far beneath the surface.

Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 · 第 14 / 37 题