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coolers. Every kitchen contains several; some of them broken in halves or smaller fragments, yet retained for use in parching wheat or corn over the fire, or for other purposes. They are undecorated and not carefully smoothed and polished "because they would be slippery to handle when they became wet."^[1]

Bean pots are made with handles as represented in pl. XVIII, b. They form a distinct type unlike any other aboriginal ware known to the writer.^[2]

Canteens were formerly made of pottery, but they have been

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1. The specimen shown in pl. XVIII, a, is 0.285 m. high, 0.255 m. in diameter at the top, 0.950 m. in maximum circumference.
2. Pl. XVIII, b, represents one of these vessels, which is 0.159 m. high, 0.195 m. in diameter at the top, 0.748 m. in maximum circumference.