ing sides and flaring rims, ornamented, walls thin. Plaiu deep vessels witli 

 bulging sides and slightly flaring rims, bottoms smooth, or marked with mat- 

 ting impressions. These are the most common forms of all. Straight sided 

 deep vessels, thick walls, roughly made. Large shallow bowl shaped vessels. 

 The hand vessels present the following varieties. Shallow bowl shaped vessels 

 with incurved rims ; generally ornamented. Shallow saucer shaped vessels, 

 plain. Yery shallow bowl shaped vessels with flaring rims, plainly ornamented. 



The vessels with constricted necks are very imperfect, the necks and portions 

 of the bodies only being found. Most of these are dry carved before baking. 



The ornamental jars and vessels are figured on plate I. with accompanying 

 descriptions in the explanation of the plate. Two of the larger ones are graceful- 

 ly formed, though they may have been used for cooking. 



One has four handles united above, the knobs on the handles perforated for 

 the passage of a cord, the handles deeply grooved in a line with the perforations. 

 Another one has a widely flaring margin projecting in four lobes with thickened 

 border. 



The most extraordinary oue of all has two apertures, and recalls some of the 

 unique features seen in the ancient Peruvian pottery. 



Of fifty ve33els more or less complete, five are bowl-shaped cups, three are 

 large bowls, seven are cups with flaring rims, two are shallow saucer-shaped 

 vessels, two are ornamental bowls with flaring rims, five are deep sided pots 

 with slightly bulging sides, the bottoms of which generally have matting impres- 

 sions, ten are cooking pots, eight have constricted necks, and eight are diversi- 

 fidd in form and ornamentation. Among these vessels, thirty-seven are orna- 

 mented as follows : twenty-four have smoothed depressed lines, one has wide 

 shallow lines, four have rough incised lines, two have dry carved lines, one has 

 uneven rough lines, and four are plain. 



Of the thirty-seven, also, twenty have the cord marked impressions, eighs 

 have the surface smooth, and the remainder have rough surfaces. 



Of the same number, nineteen have straight rims, and the remaining onet 

 have the rims knobbed, or notched in various ways. 



Several of the vessels are painted with mercury sulphide, but in no case is 

 an attempt made to produce designs or patterns, except that in some instances 

 the color is applied to interspaces between lines, or areas already marked upon 

 the vessel. Reference is made to these in the explanation of plates. 



Many of the vessels at first sight appear remarkable for their symmetry, and 

 vet measurements show that they vary in their 'diameters, and the walls of the 

 vessels vary greatly in their thickness. Xo trace of lathe work is found. 



The economy of the makers of this pottery may be seen by the careful way 

 in which they bored holes in the fractured edges of their vessels for the purpose» 

 of mending them. In some cases the hole was commenced too near the edge 



