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Again, as the pitcher was thus used exclusively as a receptacle, to be set aside in household or camp, the name í´ mush ton ne sufficed without the interpolation te "earthenware" to distinguish it as of terra cotta, instead of osiery.
Their origin is attributed to the priest-gods, and they show that it must have once been a common practice to encase gourds, as above described, in osiery.
It is readily conceivable that water-tight osiery, once known, however difficult of manufacture, would displace the general use of gourd-vessels. While the growth of the gourd was restricted to limited areas, the materials for basketry were everywhere at hand. Not only so, but basket-vessels were far stronger and more durable, hence more readily transported full of water, to any distance.
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