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the upper lobes being level with the under eyelids. The border of the tire or head-dress is 

 handsomely notched in front and twisted behind. The round base, as well as the rest, was 

 modelled by hand, and by the hand of an expert, too. It will be remembered that in the Old 

 "World baked clay busts and relievos preceded marble statuary. 



Instead of carousing, like the savage Scandinavians, and others professing more refinement^ 

 from the skulls of the conquered, the Peruvians employed these harmless imitations, and anti- 

 cipated a branch of art which modern potters might usefully extend much farther than they 

 have yet attempted. 



Euminhauy, or Eumminaui, stands out in horrid relief in the Commentaries of Garcilasso de 

 la Vega. After the death of Atahualpa, he schemed to succeed him. With this view he 

 invited the brother of the murdered Inca, his sons and daughters, and some chiefs whom he 

 could not rely on, to a feast, at which he introduced, besides the ordinary drinks, a spirituous 

 liquor named sora. His object was accomplished. His guests indulged in it, became intoxi- 

 cated and helpless, and he slew them. Pie covered a drum with the skin of Atahualpa' s 

 brother, leaving the scalp hanging to it. He subsequently buried alive a number of females, 

 old and young, under circumstances of unusual barbarity. "Thus did this barbarous tyrant 

 discover more unhumane cruelty and relentless bowels by this murther committed on poor silly 

 women, who knew nothing but how to spin and weave, than by his bloody treachery practised 

 on stout soldiers and martial men. And what further aggravates his crime was, that he was 

 there present to see the execution of his detestable sentence, being more pleased with the objects 

 of his cruelty, and his eyes more delighted with the sad and dismal sight of so many perishing 

 virgins, than with any other prospect. ***** Thus ended these poor virgins, dying 

 only for a little feigned laughter, which transported the tyrant beyond his senses. But this 

 villany passed not unjjunished, for after many other outrages he had committed during the 

 time of his rebellion against the Spaniards, and after some skirmishes with Sebastian Belalca- 

 car (who v/as sent to suppress him, as we shall hereafter relate), and after he had found by 

 experience that he was neither able to resist the Spaniards, nor yet, by reason of his detestable 

 cruelties, to live amongst the Indians, he was forced to retire with his family to the mountains 

 of Antis, where he suffered the fate of other tyrannical usurpers, and then most miserably per- 

 ished." — "EoYAi Commentaries," translated by Ricault, Booh II, Chapters 3 and 4. 



The second figure, marked h, has been modelled after the head of the Jaguar. It is of a 

 darker red than the preceding, and is ornamented with black lines and spots. The tongue 

 protrudes. There are two openings into this vessel — one at the left ear, through which it was 

 charged, and a small one at the back, near the bottom, to draw off the contents. The substance 

 is encreased round the last, to afford hold of a wooden plug. Capacity of the vase, three pints. 



Figure c is another red vase, and one whose form and ornaments indicate good taste in the 

 artist, whoever he was. On the opposite side the remains of a painted panel are visible, and 

 within it the figures marked d. The handles have been elaborately adorned, also, with a black 

 pencil. The diameter of this vessel does not exceed five inches, and its depth is only one and 

 three quarters. It appears to have been used over the fire, although painted vessels, it is sup- 

 posed, were not generally used as sauce-pans or skillets. They were probably placed over per- 

 forations in the stone slabs of old Peruvian stoves. 



Figures d, d', are front and edge views of a flat bottle, eight inches in diameter and a little- 

 over three inches in thickness. Of a bright red, the upper half is ornamented with black, 

 white, greenish, and purple lines (not shown in the figure). Two cobras, or double-headed 

 snakes, are on each side, and below a white band. Two crosses are cut into the material. 



The vase e is only four and a half inches deep, and three across the lips. It is ornamented 

 all round, but less on the side represented. It has three features characteristic of vessels carried 

 about the person : loops to sling it by, a conical bottom, and a stud projecting from the swell 

 equidistant from each loop. Whatever was the object of these studs, they seem to have been 

 carried next the person, since they are always found on the plain or least decorated sides of 



