382 » ASHMEAD—HUACOS POTTERIES UF OLD PERU. [Nov. 20, 
Trocadero. You can see there a subject who has lost his nose in 
like manner ; a person whose face is covered with soft tissue, which 
is drawn tight, and reminds one of sclerous tissue. The mouth is 
puckered and reduced to a very small aperture, the lips have lost 
Figure 5. Nose lost at the root. 
their apparent elasticity, as if they could neither be opened nor 
closed, and the teeth remain uncovered. Certain subjects of lupus 
to-day offer this very aspect. 
In America, I have for many years made a very minute examina- 
tion of all such potteries, mostly derived from Chancan or Chim- 
bote, Peru. Some of them were buried with the mummies of 
Ancon, the oldest cemetery of Peru, where most of the thermal 
springs were located. Here surely would congregate, before death, 
the diseased of those. ancient races, and many must have died 
there on the very spot. However, it has been impossible to locate 
the exact mummy to which each piece of pottery belongs, through 
the fault of the explorer.’ I have also examined all the Ancon 
mummies in the United States, and caused to be examined by the 
eminent anthropologist, Dr. Emile Schmidt, all those of the Leip- 
zig Museum, where is to be found the finest collection of American 
objects in the whole of Europe. The Leipzig authorities in col- 
lecting specimens even A&7l/ed a. Guayaquis Indian in South 
America to obtain his skull! Their agent recently paid in Lima 
as high as one hundred dollars in gold for one of these little pot- 
