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came from graves in which they had been placed with the mummies of 
the old Peruvians, who buried their dead in a sitting posture and tied up 
in a sort of bale. Some of the pots originally held food and others drink, 
intended “ for the use of the spirit of the deceased during his journey to 
the other world.”” The designs of the various articles were nearly all 
borrowed from animal sources, plant structures were very rarely copied ; and 
the majority of the human faces and figures represented were intentionally 
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grotesque ; nearly all showed clever modelling and a very much higher order 
of art than that to be seen in the drawings with which one piece of 
pottery, at least, was embellishéd. Two examples among the four hundred 
which were dispersed on October 10th are of some interest to the members 
of this Society. The first (Fig. 1) represents a snail shell, which may 
well have been copied from some helicoid species, with the mouth 
forming the opening of the vessel, and brought round to the upper or 
spire side of the shell. This specimen is now in the possession of the 
Rev. R. Ashington Bullen. The other piece of pottery which is worthy 
of mention in this connection (Fig. 2) is a bottle or flask, which like 
many others is provided with a hollow handle communicating with and 
supporting the neck. The body of the vessel is not, as is often the case, 
fashioned in the shape of a human head, but is embellished instead with 
three bulimoid snails in relief. In these the eye-bearing tentacles are 
directed backwards against the shell, and support for them is thus gained 
at the expense of accuracy. The Rev. Randolph Berens is now the 
possessor of this vessel, which unfortunately is cracked. 
WILFRED Mark WEBB. 
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