394 ASHMEAD—HUACOS POTTERIES OF OLD PERU. [Noy. 20, 
these ceramics whenever amputation of feet is represented (for the 
flaps are shown) there is evidence of disease in the face. 
Does there exist such a disease of the face, which would also 
affect the feet to require amputation of them and both equally? 
Yes! I believe that the amputated feet of the huacos potteries 
have relation with the mutilations represented on the face. 
Mr. Ambrosetti (Vota de Arquelogia Calchagit Instituto Geogra- 
phico-Argentina, tomo xvii) thinks that the stumps are due to the 
imperfect work of the artist, like in Calchaque idols, whose feet are 
are not moulded in form at all. But then there are images 
shown stretched on the belly, apparently intended to be shown in 
a helpless condition! I have seen one representing a person who 
was dressing his stump with a cup of medicine, the stump thrown | 
across the opposite leg; and besides there are the flaps shown and 
also that foot specimen itself, like a foot that had been cut off. 
Some of these amputated figures are represented with the hand ex- 
tended for alms ; some hold a stick to creep or hobble with on their 
knees, with their feet cut off. 
In the images of the La Plata Museum, shown among the ten 
which I print in this article, it can be seen by the originals (for 
all the kneeling figures are without feet, the ends of their limbs show- 
ing flap-stumps as if amputated, which cannot be seen by a front 
view) that in no case is amputation represented without the image 
showing a diseased face. Now the ancient Incans cut off the hands 
and ears of prisoners, but not the feet. Yet this mutilation of 
hands and ears is not shown by a single specimen of pottery that 
I have seen, and besides I believe that they never buried a c/ay soud-. 
figure with such a criminal. TZhey wanted him to die. ‘The pot 
buried with him would keep him alive. 
In a report of the Viceroy, Dr. Martin Henriquez, of the year 
1582, which mentions the manner of government of Peru, the cus- 
toms and usages of the Incas, and where it is said in a general way 
that amputation of limbs was a punishment of criminals, he goes 
on to say: ‘‘ But in my opinion such amputations were no simple 
bodily punishment which left the sufferer alive, but a kind of capi- 
tal execution like hanging, or other like.” The text, which is here 
translated literally, says: ‘‘ Executions were public and very crude. 
Some were precipitated from rocks (of Andean precipices), others 
had their limbs amputated, etc.’’ 
Von den Steinen says: ‘‘As to the mutilations of the legs, whether 
