THE ANCIENT INDIAN POTTERY OF MARAJO, BRAZIL. 265 
shaped ridge as in the other figures, the alz of the nose being, 
however, well formed, though unsymmetrical. The eyes are round 
and very prominent, the pupil be- 
ing represented. The mouth is a 
low, rounded elevation. The face 
received a wash of white clay. 
Around the brows and nose runs a 
wide, shallow groove painted red ; 
side of the mouth are also painted 
red. The other lines represented 
in the eut are engraved with a 
sharp point. The pattern enclosed 
in the rude circles occurs on other pieces of pottery from the same 
locality, as we shall see farther on. The back of the head is 
smooth and unornamented. The figure was hollow, the body 
- probably resembling that of fig. 67. It was built from the base 
upward, the top of the head being the last part formed. Layers 
of clay were laid on one above the other, overlapping inside, 
and then pressed into shape by the fingers, which were introduced 
through a hole in the top of the head. The imprints of the fingers 
preserve sharply the impressions of the striz of the skin, showing 
the direction from which the fingers 
were applied. Finally, a cap of clay 
was applied above, closing the open- 
ing, and the figure was worked into 
shape from the outside. The height 
of the head is three inches; breadth, 
four inches. Another head, also sep- 
arate from the body and represented 
in figs. 62, 63 and 69, is larger than 
the others and in some respects more 
elaborately executed. It resembles _ 
them, however, in its being flattened, 
in its being furnished with the trans- 
Side view of the head of idol repre- VeTSe crest, which, in this case, is low 
sented in Figs. 2 and 63 and rounded, and in the T-shaped 
combined brows and nose. It, however, differs from the images 
just described in the grotesque ornamentation of the eyes, cheek 
Head of Idol, Marajo. 
Fig. 69. 
