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THE POTTERY OF ARGENTINE. 



The Argentine collection was represented by seventy- nine aquarelles 

 of pottery, principally funerary urns, a large number containing remains 

 of adults and children. In quality the pottery ranges from coarse 

 bowls to higher painted and modeled forms. In the painted vases the 

 conventional human face and body, and also the serpent, predominate. 

 They are all from the province of Catamarca. 



THE POTTERY OF URUGUAY. 



In the archa3ological collection from Uruguay there were some frag 

 ments of pottery and one large broken jar. The ware has a coarse 

 paste consisting of clay mixed with sand and shell and is imperfectly 

 baked. The surface is rough and has a rude ornamentation of dots 

 a/nd straight lines scratched in the paste. In a few cases painted ves- 

 els are ornamented in the mounds of Vizcauio and Soriano, showing 

 different combinations of curved and right lines in red and white paint. 



The usual form is globular and conical, pierced at the rim for suspen 

 sion. Funerary urns occur. 



PERUVIAN AND MEXICAN POTTERY FROM THE GERMAN COLLECTIONS. 



In the German section there were numerous water colors from objects 

 collected by Herman Strebel in the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. The 

 ancient civilization in that State is of the Totonacs and Chichimecs. 



Many chromolithographic plates taken from the great work of Eeiss 

 and Stiibel entitled &quot;The Necropolis of Ancon in Peru&quot; were exhibited. 



