COLLECTION FROM COCHITl. 

 articijES of stone. 



-«12-815. 812, (47901); 813, (47905); 814, (47474); 815, (47475). Hat- 

 shaped lava stones used in cooking bread; they are heated and 

 placed ou top of the cake. This is au old custom almost entirely 

 abandoned, and now practiced only by a few families of this 

 pueblo. 



816-818. 81G, (4790G); 817, (47907); 818, (47909). Regularly formed 

 pestles. 



819-820. 819, (47908) ; 820, (47910). Pounding stones with groove. 



821-822. 821. (47911; 822, (47919). Grooved hatchets or axes. 



823-824. 823, (47920); 824, 47923). Smoothing stones. 



823, (47924). A collection of 20 smoothing stones. 



826, (47925). Seven oval segments or disks of gourd, regularly cut and 

 edged for scraping and smoothing pottery. 



827-828. 827, (47470); 828, (47471). Hatchets or pounders (for it is 

 doubtful to which class they belong), with handle yet attached. 

 The second was probably used as a hatchet, the first more likely 

 as a pounder. 



829,(47472). Well-shaped hatchets. 



830, (47473). Lava mortar. 



ARTICLES OF CLAY. 



These, with only one or two exceptions, consist of white decorated 

 ware; the bottoms are polished red as usual, but the decorations are 

 in black. 



831-832. 831, (47273); 832, (47274). Canteens with loop handles on the 

 side, the first with a star or rosette ornament in the top and 

 scalloped line around the middle, second with triangular figures. 



833, (47275). Plain unburnt tinaja. 



834, (47288). Image, duck's body with cow's head. 



835, (47289). Duck image. This and also the preceding with loop handle 



ou the back and trident figures on the sides. 



836, (47295). Pitcher-shaped cup, with handle, ornamentation, oblique 



dashes. 



837, (47296). Deep, olla-shaped bowl ; anvil-shaped figures on the out- 



side. 



838, (47297). Small canteen, loop-handles at the sides, central star orna- 



ment , . , . J 



839-840. 839, (47445); 840, (47440). Bowls adorned with sprigs and 



flowers internally and stars externally ; quite neat. 



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