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that part of the wood to which the metallic hlade was hound. This implement, when perfect, 

 resembled some recovered from Egyptian tombs. 



9. A nea-tly made basket-bowl, similar in construction to Figure 9, on Plate X, but only six 

 inches across. 



8. A stone-pointed instrument, lashed by aniflial iibre to one side of a handle nearly two 

 feet long. If not a weajjon, it was probably an agricultural tool. The extreme point only 

 seems to have become smooth by use. 



In pottery the specimens are more numerous than those figured on Plate IX. There are four 

 large vases, of which three are painted and one is plain, and in material and outline similar to 

 Figure 3 on the plate, but more than double its capacity, being 9 inches deep and 8 across the 

 swelled part. It has been used over a fire. The other three are about equal in capacity, though 

 not quite so. Two have conical bottoms, and were used over a fire. They have ears, like 

 Figure 1 of Plate IX. Below the ears they are plain and rough, because those parts were 

 dropped into the perforated tops of their stoves, as mentioned on page 115 ; but all above the 

 ears are painted, on a light-colored ground coat, with black and red designs, somewhat after 

 the style of Figure 11 of Plate IX. 



The remaining one of the four is a perfect pitcher, with a flat bottom^ loop-handle at one 

 side, but without a contracted lip. The ground color is a dark chocolate-red, upon which are 

 displayed with considerable efl"ect white lines, stars, and circles, relieved by others in black. 

 The rim is ornamented inside and out. Taken altogether, the vase is worthy of a place on 

 modern tables. The material is a light reddish clay — same as the other painted ones. 



Two vases shaped like Figure 3, Plate IX — holding, the one a quart, the other not so much. 



Two more — one formed like Figure 2, and the other like Figure 1, of Plate IX — might be 

 taken for children's toys, since each could hold no more than an ordinary wine-glass. 



A wide-mouth bowl, with flat bottom, and holds a'pint. 



A smaller one, very rudely formed, and very flat. It might have served for a lamp, if lamps 

 were used in the family. 



A very interesting specimen of ancient crockeryware is one that resembles a quart pot or 

 tankard. It has nearly straight sides, stands four inches high, and is four in diameter. A 

 handle, in the form of an Indian's head with a high cap or mitre, rises above the rim from 

 swelled part of the sides. The outside of this vessel preserves rude attempts at ornament with 

 black and brown colors. A very similar one. but slightly larger, with the head and body of 

 a monkey for the handle, was found in a grave eleven feet under ground, near Ariquipe, during 

 the past year, and presented to the Smithsonian Institution by Mr. Eckel, United States consul 

 at Talcahuana, Chile. This vessel is better painted and in better preservation than the 

 preceding. 



The conical-bottomed vases having, as intimated, been used as boilers, they are furnished 

 with stoppers formed precisely like those on Plate IX. Such as belong to painted vessels are, in 

 like manner, ornamented over half their surfaces ; a circumstance which shows that they were 

 dropped into their places with the perforated ends up — consequently the steam never entered 

 them. 



Of clothing, and other woven remains, there is an apron-looking piece in tolerably good 

 preservation — half a yard one way, and something less the other ; it exhibits a pattern of fancy 

 stripes in brown and white. 



A small cap, with loop to pass under the chin. It resembles in texture the one figured on 

 Plate X, and appears to have belonged to a child. 



A coarse and open knit bag — eight inches deep and four wide. 



A sling, woven in squares of black and white, in moderate preservation. Portions of the 



lines are missing. A variety of slings was of old in vogue in Peru. With some tribes they 



were the chief, with others the only weapons used in war ; and considerable labor and skill 



were laid out on them. They were decorated in the loom, both the straps and strings being . 



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