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TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES, chap. xiv. 



convenient to hold when pouring out liquids ; others have very 

 diminutive handles high up, by which the vessels were probably 

 suspended. The ordinary single handle, seen in E and W, is less 

 often found than the double ones. 



ORNAMENTATION OF POTTERY. 



Many of these vessels or utensils are without ornament, though 

 some are embellished by crude representations of the human face 

 (A, B, F, G, W). Ornamental details, incised, raised, or painted, occa- 

 sionally occur ; and a few of the more characteristic are brought 



together in the engraving above. 



