74 Use of Broken Pottery. 
ens are less likely to get at them there and they quite secure from 
the voracious dogs, which would make as much havoc among them 
as a horse. 
Broken pots are used to feed and water the chickens and dogs, 
and would probably be used as washpans if the Indian mind could 
conceive of water as an external application. : 
In their primitive cupboards—shelves made of sticks lashed to- 
gether—one is often surprised at the number of more or less broken 
vessels and their contents —salt, red pepper, dried meat, dried roots, 
berries, seeds of many kinds, old buttons, nails, odd tools for small 
domestic uses, with dyes, paints, etc. 
Pieces of broken pots are used in making and smoothing new 
ones. I noticed one day a woman at the shady side of her, house 
engaged in this very necessary occupation; on one side was part of 
a large water vessel filled with the crude clay, and part of an old 
cooking pot with sand to be used in tempering. She was work- 
ing into the requisite shape a portion properly mixed and softened 
by the addition of water, using as a working board an old flat 
dish with the rim broken off. Near her were parts of several. 
broken vessels in which to stand the newly made ones while slowly 
drying in the shade, thus obviating the necessity of direct handling 
in changing them about to secure the necessary evenness in drying. 
As broken pots are put to so many uses, it lessens the actual need 
of new ones, and the Indian in the absence of manufactories and 
left to his own resources is equal—that is his wife is—to the emer- 
gency and with clay and the patience which fortunately she pos- 
sesses, produces the vessels which serve her simple purposes, nearly 
as well as the more ornamental and elaborate ones of civilized man. 
—_2a 
PAULLINIA TORTUOSA (Benth.) Cardiospermum tortuosum de-— 
scribed and figured in the Botany of the Sulphur is certainly a Paul- 
linia. A recent examination of material collected at Magdalena 
Bay, the original locality, by Walter E. Bryant and by the writer, 
shows that the plant has five sepals, four discal glands and a septici- 
dal capsule nearly filled by the I-3 large seeds: leaves deeply im- 
pressed over the veinlets on the under surface and minutely papil- 
lose on the upper. The two anterior glands are conical, the white 
area at the base of the seed is bilobed and the lobes of the stigma 
elongated. . T. S. B. 
