CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION 

 OF 



SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN OBJECTS 



MADE IN THE 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC from 1882 to 1886 



AND PRESENTED TO 



THE COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB 



BY 



H. D. AND C. L. HOSKOLD 



No. I. Vase painted red and black, with zig-zag lines, 

 found in an Indian tomb in the neighbourhood of Gualfin, 

 (Province of Catamarca). — On all the pottery and other 

 objects of daily use in the time of the Incas, the sign of their 

 Sun worship was invariably marked. When, however, 

 the whole sign could not be employed, from want of space, 

 portions of it, i.e., the angular rays of the Sun, were 

 adopted and made to traverse the object in a zig-zag 

 manner ; upon the pottery of the more ancient races, 

 however, such signs are wanting. This vase must have 

 belonged to a chief of a tribe, because it is of a good 

 class: others, however, existed which were vastly superior. 



No. 2. Vase found in an Indian tomb in the Province 

 of Catamarca. — The markings upon this vase are indis- 

 tinct, still there seems to be evidence that it belonged to 

 a person anterior to the time of the Incas. If the signs 

 upon it are correctly interpreted, they are serpent mark- 

 ings in an ornamental form. It does not seem to have 

 been discovered that serpent worship or regard existed 

 among the later Incas, but it is certain that the idea is an 

 Egyptian one. 



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