THE ANCIENT INDIAN POTTERY OF MARAJO, BRAZIL. 267 
broad raised lines bordering the crest, brows and nose. The 
mouth is not represented. The ornament about the eye is sub- 
stantially the same in both, but in the smaller head it has only two 
salient parts, or rays. It is interesting to observe, that the little 
eye-like figure of which in the larger head there are four about 
each eye is not wholly forgotten in the smaller head, but it makes 
its appearance in the lower outer corner of the right cheek, as an 
irregular hollow square. The central boss on the back of the 
smaller head (Fig. 71), and the W-shaped figure in which it stands, 
form manifestly the same design as that seen on the back of the 
larger head. The two upper eye-shaped ornaments on the back 
of the larger head appear on the smaller as hollow squares. The 
two lower in the smaller head correspond to ornaments, which, in 
the larger are attached to the border. More of the body of this 
second image is preserved than of the other. Fig. 71. 
The specimen (Fig. 70) is about three LF 
inches in length. The ornamentation con- 
sists of raised lines forming hollow, angular 
figures unsymmetrically disposed both in 
front and behind. Part of the crest is 
broken away. The ornamentation was un- 
skilfully executed with a very coarse tool. 
Since these two heads were found lying 
loose, and at a distance from one another, 
there is little probability of their having Back view or Head EENI 
been made by the same hand. The points eae 
of resemblance between them indicate the existence of a - 
nized and common design, which cannot but have a significance. 
Which is the elder of the two, and which corresponds more nearly 
to the original pattern, it is impossible to say. These images ap- 
pear to have been of a sacred character, but whether they were 
used as idols during the life time of the individual, and buried 
with his ashes, or were sacred figures used only in burial, is 
not clear. I am unable to describe the mode of association of 
these images with the burial urns, as the former were picked up 
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In connection with the vases and images, pottery of various 
kinds occurs. There are flask-like water-bottles, quite like those 
in use in Brazil to-day, cups, flat dishes and pots of various kinds, 
some very coarse, others highly ornamented with painted and en- 
