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Fig. 383 shows one of the pieces of reed with the line wound up. The latter 

 consists of vegetable fibre, and is twisted with perfect regularity. The reel has 

 at each end a split through which one of the copper fish-hooks is passed, as indica- 

 ted in the illustration. The hooks are much corroded, and covered with verdigris. 

 They are unbarbed, and the larger of them is provided with an eye for fastening 

 the line, while the smaller one shows slight protuberances to facilitate that pro- 

 cess. I have called them copper hooks, though there is a possibility that they 

 may consist of bronze. They are rather frail, and an attempt to discover 

 whether they consist of copper or an alloy might lead to their destruction. 



Fig. 384 represents the largest and best-finished of the three sinkers, found 

 separately from the hooks and reels, as stated. It is carefully made of dark 

 argillite, well-smoothed, but not polished, and shows the striae produced in fash- 

 ioning it. A section through the middle would resemble an oval with one of 

 the ends truncated. There are two grooves at one end, and only one at the other. 

 These grooves are not entirely carried around, but terminate where they reach 

 the flattened side of the sinker. The arrangement shown in the represented 

 group conveys an impression of methodical order, perfectly in keeping with the 

 habits of the Peruvians. 



PlO. 386. 



FIGS. 385-387. Copper fish-hooka. Ancon. 



In addition, I copy designs of three copper fish-hooks from Plate 81 of the 

 yet unfinished splendid folio work by Messrs. W. Reiss and A. Stiibel, entitled 

 " The Necropolis ot Ancon in Peru," which is published in German and English 

 (Berlin and London) under the auspices of the Directors of the Berlin Royal 

 Museum.* The authors devoted several years to the exploration of the burial- 



* The appearance of this work was thus announced by the " London Times " : 



"We have never seen anything finer in chromo-lithography, and the illustrations have all the appearance 

 of being faithful reproductions of the originals. We have the strange-looking mummies themselves wrapped in 

 their many particolored cloths, tied round with ropes, and the numerous articles that loving hands deposited beside 



