34 INDIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



its two spouts of different sizes — one through which to fill it, and the other to drink from — and 

 in its hail or handle, it resemhles the popular "Monkey" or "Pitcher of Brazil," an ahorigi- 

 nal vessel of universal use in that country, and which has been dug up in Chile, Peru, and 

 other parts of South America, in diversified forms and dimensions, plain and ornamented. It 

 is worth remarking that similar vessels have been found in the catacombs of Rome. 



The next vase, if i^laced in a collection of Egyptian relics, would be received as a genuine 

 can opus, so striking is its resemblance to some Pharaonic vessels. 



The third figure is a long-necked bottle, moulded at opposite sides into protruding fish-heads. 



The fourth is in the form of a spheroid, with the neck united to it by two curved tubes ; a 

 feature common in old water-flasks of Meridional America. 



The fifth is an i h r, elaborately decorated with colors. 



Of the second row, the first is very like two antique Bolivian bottles, engraved in L' Homme 

 Americain, Paris, 1839. 



Of the two next, one is figured after a bird ; the other, after a man in a sitting or bent position. 



The last is a neat bottle, with loops for a cord to suspend it. A lizard has been painted on it 

 between two bands — (omitted by the engraver.) 



Utensils in Stone and Wood. 



I have here thrown together in outline a number of utensils whose use is not ascertained. 

 All, save one, are carved in stone, and, with a single exception, modelled after the Llama audits 

 relatives — the Alpaca, Guanaco, and Vicuna. It is difiicult to imagine them anything else 

 than mortars, or salt-cellars. The cavities are represented by dotted lines. The bottoms of all 

 are flat, and hence they were evidently designed to stand alone, and to be used in the positions 

 in which they are figured. There were tioenty-one in the collection. Those omitted presented 

 no i)eculiar features. 



The first one, marked C, is the largest, being six and a half inches long and four inches deep. 



