INDIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



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Gold, Silver, Ohampi, <&c. 



Figure 1. A full-lengt]i figure of a female, in silver. It is two and a half inches high, hut 

 does not weigh as much as a quarter of a dollar — being one of those thin specimens mentioned 

 hy the early historians. I could not detect traces of soldering except at the feet. At the inside 

 of the legs the metal laps, and is unsoldered. The head is large beyond all proportion. This 

 mode of dressing the hair is the same in all the figures of females. Figure 2 shows the mode 

 of securing it behind. 



Figure 3. A bust of a hunchback, in bronze, not quite two inches high, and much corroded. 

 The bulb in the cheek denotes the quid of coca. The weight of this bust is light in proportion 

 to its bulk, showing that tin preponderates in the alloy. It is the best proportioned figure of 

 the whole, and apparently the oldest. 



Figures 4 and .5 are solid images, in ''cJiampi," one and a half inches high, send smooth and 



