404 Philip Ainsworth Means, 



Fig. 3. A Proto-Nasca bowl showing Centipede-God motif. 

 Note four-digit hands. 



Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Fig. 4. A Proto-Nasca vessel with two narrow spouts. 



Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Fig. 5. A Proto-Nasca vessel decorated with the Multiple- 

 headed God motif. Note the four digit-hands. 

 Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Fig. 6. A semi-realistic modelled vessel, of the Proto-Nasca 

 culture. 



Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



PLATE III. 



Fig. I. A Proto-Nasca vessel. Note the headdress, the mouth- 

 mask, the ribbon-and-ring decorations, and the conven- 

 tionalized spear-thrower. 



Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City. 



Fig. 2. A Proto-Nasca vessel with a variant of the Centipede 

 God motif. Note the four-digit hands and the pro- 

 truding tongue. 



Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City. 



Fig. 3. A Proto-Nasca vessel. Note the feather-like mouth- 

 mask, the ribbon-and-ring decorations, and the bilateral 

 symmetry of the design. 



Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City. 



PLATE IV. 



Fig. I. An embroidered Proto-Nasca textile. Note the head- 

 dress, mouth-mask, and the four digit-hands. 



