curions black pottery (Platos XI and XII) wliicli st'cins (o be iikuo abnií- 

 (laiit hi aiul about Aiidalgalá, tliaii aiiy wIumc clsc; aii<l tlio saine nniy 

 be said ot'the fine vases figured in piales A^II aiid Vil I and in ents 11, 

 .■)9 aml 40. \Ve mijíiit also nientionthe bowls, li^nres (Kí and (m, wliicli 

 occur so oenerally all over tlie Calchaqní district and neiglibonriiií; val- 

 leys : no doubt their convenient size and cnrious designs ren<lered their 

 conveyance from one place to aiiotlier so niuch easier. Every Santa 

 Maria funeral urn liad to be ca])i)ed by its bowl, more or less ornameii- 



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ted with tlie conventioual symbolical designs; but the íact is that in 

 Andalgalá we find mauy of these bowls, if few or none of tlie corres- 

 ponding urns: this can only mean tliat as the bowl was easier to earry 

 than the urn; tbis was left and tbe bowl taken. 



My object in publisbing tliis archaeological paper was mainly to cali 

 attention to certain types of Diaguito-Calchaquí pottery; tlie plates and 

 cuts will enable stndents to comisare our exam^jles witb others disin- 

 terred in other parts of the more cultured nations of America. 



Eecent discoveries in North, Central and Sonth America obl i ge us to 



