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689
CORRESPONDENCE.
1.
The
or
Kalasa,
"Water-Pot,
Burial
in
connection
with
Ritks.
to
ovan, about tho timo of his risky visit
one
his
in
of
the
Turkoman
tombs
Merve, describes,
letters,
on the south-east
: " The
about Tchikislar,
of the Caspian
soldier's
tomb consists
feet in
of a pole of some twenty
Sir,?O'Don
by
a
to the
tributes
jars and earthen tea-pots,
on
short
of
the
This
bears
deceased."
memory
quotation
in relation to the
what has formerly appeared in the Journal
selection
vaso
or
of water
and
water-pot,
rites.
burial
Central
is
Asia
near
spring
should
mystical
of the Great
return and
respect
for
of it, I
Spirit, and if I should drink
live with men
for ever.
Some
such
the
element,
rather
than
as
a mere
outfit for his spirit home, probably induced the earlier tribes
to pluce the conch-shell,
of the samo territory
which
the
on his grave, and
deceased had used for a cup, conspicuously
to inter a vase filled with water
and Peruvians
the Mexicans
with
the corpse,
or to sprinkle
it with
liquid, baptizing
it, as
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690
CORRESPONDENCE.
2. The
of the Royal
Kalasa,
Asiatic
Simpson.
Society.
or Water-Pot,
in Indian
Collectors
Architecture.
Camp, Panwell,
Kolaba
Districts,
April
21st,
1889.
son's
been
Indian
modern
design.
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