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Nos. 122 and 123. Spikes of Indian Com. — Found in 

 the grave of an Indian at Sances, (Province of La Rioja). 

 This proves that Indian Corn was indigenous, and the corns 

 attached to the spike are smaller than they are at present 

 found, indicating the natural condition or cultivation. 



No. 124. Part of a basket, l)eautifully worked in 

 different patterns, from a grave in the village of Sances, 

 (Province of La Rioja). 



No. 125. A beautiful piece of work with needles in it, 

 probably not finished before the owner died. — Found in 

 the grave of an Indian at Sances, (Province of La Rioja). 

 It is one of the Inca books of knots and signs by which 

 the Indians understood and recorded events, &.c. It is 

 an exceedingly rare object, and has great historical value, 

 but it is doubtful whether anyone now living would be able 

 to read its indications. (See Garcilazo de la Vega and 

 Prescott : the first the best ancient, and the la.st the best 

 modern historian). 



The objects indicated in this catalogue were collected 

 by H. D. and Carlos L. Hoskold, and are presented by 

 them to the Museum of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field 

 Club, on the condition that the collection shall be 

 preserved as long as that Club shall exist, and afterwards 

 shall be placed in some permanent Museum in the County 

 of Gloucester ; but in either case the donors reserve 

 to themselves the right to select two or three objects from 

 the coUec^tion, supposing it were to be n(M-essary. 



H. D. Hoskold. 



Buenos Aires, 15th January, 1892. 



*** The Collection is placed, for the present, in a case 

 provided for the purpose by the Cottesivold Club, in the 

 Price Memorial Hall, Brunszvick Road, Gloucester. 



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