132 INDIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



vases. Besides the loops, a couiile of small holes are made in ears close to the rim, as if to pass 

 twine through. 



The vase / is three inches deep, and four and a half in diameter at the widest jjart; flat 

 bottomed and with transverse handles, as in figure c, instead of vertical loops; it has evidently 

 heen employed in heating liquids : marks of fire are perceptible. Most of the colored ornaments 

 are gone. 



Figure g, a beautifully formed vase. The stud is colored white, and the panel is drawn 

 in black on the usual pale red surface. The capacity about three pints. 



Figure h is somewhat smaller, of the same general outlines, but differing in colored orna- 

 ments. The stud on its side is round, while on the rest it is square. 



Figure i, a square bottle of the same material as all the preceding. It is seven inches high, 

 and four across each side. The top is flat, projects a little all round, and more so at the corners. 

 The contents were poured in at the top, and drawn out at the small opening near the bottom. 

 Both openings are protected by raised borders. This vase, so like those in modern liquor cases, 

 (the second figure h, and probably others), was certainly not designed to hold water, but for 

 keeping more precious liquids, and spirituous liquor? in all probability. That the Peruvians 

 had such is well known. Acosta says of one, that it induced intoxication much quicker than 

 wine; and the strength of sora was such as almost instantly to prostrate those that indulged in 

 it. Its use was prohibited by several of the Incas, under the penalty of death. 



Figures j, j' are front and end views of a vase in the form of a shield, of very small dimensions, 

 possibly a child's flask. A loop is moulded on one side by which to suspend it. 



Figure h, a minute bottle, rather roughly formed, decorated with lines sunk in the surface. 

 Its material inclines to gray rather than red. 



Figure I, a travelling vase. The face is well brought out, and the whole elaborately painted. 

 Its capacity does not exceed a pint. 



Figure m, a larger one, holding near two quarts, and elaborately ornamented. 



Figure n. This vessel would hold a pint and a half. It is of a yellowish clay, and has been 

 profusely embellished ; but except traces of the pencil here and there, all is obliterated. The 

 lip has a recess to receive a plug. This bottle is supposed to be the oldest in the collection. 



Figure o, a minute pitcher, but prettily embellished in black and yellow. Having a rounded 

 and convex bottom, it was necessarily suspended by the handle when not in use. 



FigHre p, another bottle with a flat bottom, nearly five inches in diameter, and of the same 

 height, neck included. The front part has been tastefully painted, and the large handle also. 

 The weight scarcely exceeds a quarter of a pound. 



Figure q, a long- necked bottle without a handle, and designed for a traveller, as the loops 

 and stud declare. The opposite side is decorated — the one shown is left plain. This vase is 

 nearly eight inches high, of which the neck makes four inches. At the swell it is four and 

 a half inches in diameter. 



Figure r, a drinking-cup not quite four inches high. The diameter at top is rather less, and 

 at bottom two inches. A golden cup in the possession of Seiior Barboza, from the tomb of an 

 Inca, is of precisely the same figure, but less than half the size, and raised without solder from 

 a flat piece of exceedingly thin metal. 



Figures s, t, u, v, iv, x, y, are specimens of thirteen plates or shallow pijikins (or whatever 

 their proper designation may be), varying from three to thirteen inches across, and rarely 

 exceeding half an inch in depth. Most of them have handles, terminating with the head of a 

 bird, &c. All are ornamented within, none without. The colors are black, red, white, and 

 yellow — the last looking like unburnished gold. Except such as have recurved or ring-shaped 

 handles, all have studs at the rims; and some of these projections have small perforations, 

 j)robably to insert loops of twine to suspend them against the walls, instead of resting them on 

 shelves. Those marked s, t, were found in 1820, in a huaca near Saint Sebastian, one league 

 I'rom Cuzco. 



