Smithsonian Report, 1925. — Safford 



Plate 7 



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Potato Vases 



. A funeral vase in the form of two pota- 

 toes in natural colors from a grave at 

 Chimbote, on the coast of Peru, col- 

 lected by W. E. Safford, 1892. Field 

 Museum, Chicago, No. 1188 



. Black ware vase from a Chimbote grave, 

 in the form of a conventionalized potato. 

 Collection of Spencer F. Baird, U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. Original photograph 



Conventionalized Potatoes 



A whistling Iniaca of black ware, in the form of conventionalized potatoes, from a Chimbote 

 grave. Collection of Spencer F. Baird in the U. S. National Museum. Original photograph 



