THE GUANCHES. 



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bigli, witli a lid of the same wai-e. No. -1 is a small ornamented jar of 

 the same cliaracter. No. 5 is a bowl 5 inches across, which is of much 

 interest, as showing the iuflnence of early Etruscan art. Nos. G and 7 

 are seals for stamping- early pottery ; they are made from lava. 



The other Guanche remains of which we give sketches are also taken 

 from the same museum. They have 

 not i>reviously, so far as we are aware, 

 been figured in any book or journal, 

 though similar objects are to be fmiud 

 in several European museums. It is 

 not a little remarkable and not very 

 creditable that our great ethnologi- 

 cal collection at the British Museum 

 has not a single relic of the Guanche 

 race. 



In this next group (fig. 14) No. 1 

 represents a headdress or coronet 

 worn by the ancient Guanche women. 

 It consists of a wide thong of leather, 

 upon which white shells are rudely riveted. No. 2 is a pestle and mortar. 

 The mortar is of blue lias, and about a foot in diameter; the pestle is 

 of a hard grayish-yellow stone. No. 3 represents a small stone hand- 

 mill for grinding barley; it is 14 inches in diameter. 



In the upper part of the last sketch (fig. 15) are shown some sling 

 stones, weighing from 4 to C ounces, as well as two hand-throwing 

 stones, which weigh 1^ and 2 ])0unds respectively. Next to them is a 

 sling of leather. The other articles are a variety of bone needles and 

 a comb of hard wood. 



Fig. 15. 



THKIIWINO-STONKS, SLING, NEEDLES, AND COMB. 



