LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATES 



Facing pago 



1. Water aud Fire. Encaustic tile painting, Limoges, France. Designed 



by Bracquemond for Haviland & Co Title 



2. Stone rests in ancient fireplace, New Mexico, top; trivet bosses of 



baked clay and method of using, middle; and ancient pit-house fire- 

 place, New Mexico, bottom 12 



3. (1) Pottery hot-water bottle, with depressions for the feet 13 



(2) Italian scaldino or ambulant stove. 



(3, 4) Chinese hand warmers. 



(5) Kachmerian wicker hand stove. 



4. Hand warmers and foot warmers. Top, western China; middle, 



Flemish; and bottom. United States 18 



5. American Indian tongs 19 



(1, 2) Pair of Kiowa crotch-stick tongs. 



(3) Apache, Arizona . 



(4) Havasupai, Arizona. 



(5) Washoes, Nevada. 



(6) Fire-borrowing tongs, Denmark. 

 (7, 8) Spanish pincer tongs. 



6. Fire fans 24 



(1) Paraguay. 



(2) Merida, Mexico. 



(3) Yucatan. 



(4) Cape Blanco, Morocco. 



(5) Spain. 



(6) Ecuador. 



7. Primitive valve bellows, Gaboon, Africa 25 



8. Braziers. Top, Durango, Mexico; middle, Spain; and bottom, China. 



This massive bronze brazier was used by candidates undergoing the 

 oflBcial examinations at Peking 24 



9. Spits and grid of the Powhatan Indians, Virginia. (From model) 25 



10. Baking slabs of pottery and stone 40 



(1) Tetuan, Morocco. 



(2, 3) Soapstone dish and slab, the latter ancient from California. 



(4) Stones for stone boiling, Lower California, Mexico. 



(5) Pottery tortUIa baker, Mexico. 



11. Paunch on tripod for stone boiling, Teton Sioux 41 



12. Rice steamer, Simalur Island, East Indies 40 



13. Simple stoves 41 



(1, 2) Stove and pot rest, Philippines. 



(3) Double brazierlike stove with legs, Philippines. 



(4) Brazierlike stove from Laos, French Indo-China. 



(5) Pot stove with legs, Philippines. 



(6) Pottery stove with high pot rests, Philippines. 



(7) Stove pierced on side, Tetuan, Morocco. 



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