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i'ite solitary examples of eacli of these series iu some oiie or more of tlie 

 «Mitlyiiiji- places; bnt it will be found tliat in inost eases tlie objects have 

 beeii transportecl trom tlie oiie spot to tlie otlier, owiiiji' to aiiy oiie of 

 mauy reasons. As a case in point: 2 vases oftlie Santa Maria typewere 

 obtained at Choya, a village sonie G miles NW. of Andalfialá, quite out 

 of tlie Calcliaqiii rejiion, and anotlier at Santa Lucia, mid-way between 

 tlie 2 last named places; but tlie fact is that Calcliaqui tribes were 

 carried away captive from tlie Calcbaqui valley and made to settle in 

 Ingamana ajid Tucumangasta, places near Choya and Santa liucia res- 

 pectively. This took place somewhere between 1600 and 1070. As the 4 



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])laces named are simply outlyino- hamlets of Andalgalá, we may the- 

 rcfore easily explain the presence of this pottery out of its proper place. 

 It was either carried by the luckless exiles as a memento of their 

 native valleys in the moment of their expatriation, or else conveyed 

 there later on during the 250 years which have elapsed. I can prove 

 that in the secoud half of last century, mortuary bowls in 3 colours 

 had been carried away from San José in Calchaquí to Choya and other 

 distant places, which could all be traced back to one single grave; these 

 the flnders had distributed among their friends who had carried them 

 away to their homes, whence I was able to reunite them in the collec- 

 tion now on view in our Museum. 



