96 Mr. P. F. Bellamy on two Peruvian Mummies. 



times round the neck, and then in a variety of directions over 

 the trunk, and knotted together at each intersection so as to 

 form a network with broad interspaces ; every part but the 

 head being thus firmly compressed. The first and principal 

 envelope proved to be an article of dress, made of a scarlet- 

 coloured stout cloth, consisting of a single piece, sewn toge- 

 ther up the sides, and with a hole for the head and each arm ; 

 thus resembling a loose frock without sleeves, and not much 

 unlike a ponsha or mantle. The one preserved is of capacious 

 size, and was no doubt at one time worn by an adult, perhaps 

 the father of the deceased. As a wrapper for the dead, a por- 

 tion of it was drawn smooth over the head and face, then al- 

 lowed to fall in large irregular folds over the body, and the 

 superfluous portion folded up at the feet. The second and 

 innermost envelope consisted in one of a thin coarse cotton, 

 and in the other of a piece of woollen cloth wrapped rudely 

 round the body, but, like the former, drawn smooth over the 

 head and face. Between the two wrappers were found the 

 model of a raft or catamaran, two small bags made of a neatly 

 striped cloth, filled with ears of an undescribed variety of In- 

 dian corn, and two small earthen pots, one of which probably 

 at the time of deposit contained a little water, and the other 

 it is not unlikely was intended for a cooking utensil. Such 

 were the models found in conjunction with these remains ; but 

 with others which Captain Blanckley examined on the spot, 

 they were of various descriptions, and the earthen vessels of 

 different patterns : thus we have presented by him three flat 

 dishes or baskets of neat wicker-work ; a fishing line with a 

 float made of reeds matted together, and with a small black 

 oval-shaped pebble for a weight ; a very rudely made fishing 

 basket; the half of a small gourd, probably intended for a 

 lamp ; and as many as nine sorts of earthen vessels, some of 

 which are neatly painted. 



Here we may remark, that two of the p'ots and two of the 

 bags contain leaves of one of the Musacece ; and that in two 

 or three others Capt. Blanckley found a quantity of a blackish 

 powder, and lying loosely not far from one of the mummies 

 he presented, a piece of sugar-cane about 18 inches long. 



By a coincidence, the mummies under our immediate no- 

 tice are the remains of children, one of which was not more 

 than a few months old, and the other could not be much more 

 than one year ; and judging from their relative size and figure, 

 male and female. PI. IV. figs. 1 and 3. 



Of the first examined all the soft parts had mouldered into 

 dust, and nothing but the bones and a small portion of hair 

 remained. In the other the skin was hard and shriveled, the 



