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and are blackened with fire. There are also found plates of 

 gourd, and rudes ones of pottery. 



The finer kinds of pottery are much rarer, and the only 

 specimens I succeeded in finding were wrapped up with the body. 

 This fine black pottery for it is nearly all of this color seems 

 , to have been in nearly all cases used for water jugs or bottles, to 

 be carried about at the girdle ; and I have seen one of these that 

 represented a human figure with one of these miniature jugs 

 hanging from the belt. For this purpose they are all provided 

 with handles, or double necks, for being carried. There is a 

 wonderful variety of them, a collection of hundreds of them 

 having hardly two alike, while they are made to represent all 

 kinds of animals, fish, turtles, seals, serpents, birds, monkeys, 

 men, fruits, roots, etc., etc. 



In spite of this variety, there are several general forms that 

 are often repeated. One of them is a bottle with a double 

 throat, that unites above to form the mouth. Another is the 

 double jug united by one or two hollow tubes ; these are often 

 in the form of birds or animals, and often have whistles arranged 

 in the interior so that in drinking from them they whistle. 

 Another form is pointed at the bottom, so that it will not stand 

 upright unless stuck into the sand imitating in this some of the 

 ancient pottery of the East. Little earthen images five or six 

 inches in height are often found. These are all alike in form, 

 and in having a peculiar head-dress, and ears enlarged, as they 

 are now found among some of the wild tribes of the interior of 

 Peru. These can have served no other purpose than that of idols. 



The pots, besides being made, many of them, in the shape 

 of men and beasts, are nearly all ornamented with painted or 

 raised figures. Some of them are covered with little figures in 

 relief, of fish and birds, the same figures being repeated many 

 times. The strange, chair-shaped marking still used by the 

 natives of the Amazon, and found on Chinese and Egyptian 

 pottery, is also frequent. This black pottery is quite porous, and 

 is often used by modern Peruvians for keeping water cool. Some 

 of these pots, at least, seem to have been made in halves, and 

 then stuck together. 



