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Molina says (Saggio, &c., Bologna, 1872), that the Chilians 
have excellent pottery, which they burn in furnaces, or rather 
holes dug in the sides of the hills, and adds that they apply to 
their wares a sort of varnish made of a certain mineral earth. 
Schmidtmeyer (Trav. into Chile, Lond. 1824, 117) says that the 
present Chilefios are good potters for common ware: they intro- 
duce a certain quantity of earth or sand, containing an abundance 
of yellow mica; and jars, holding seventy gallons or more, are _ 
made by them of great thinness, lightness and strength, and 
which sounds as if it were metal. The Pehuenches of Chili, a 
wandering tribe, made new vessels in every locality in which they 
establish themselves (Poppig, Reise in Chile, &c., Leipz., 1835, i, 
383). 
In Bolivia, the women fabricate the pottery with much super- 
stitious ceremony (D’Orbigny, L'Homme Amer., ii, 150, 233, 339, 
363). According to Castelnau, the Chiriguanos women are excel- 
lent potters. One vessel measured by him was a metre in diameter 
and twelve decimetres in height (Exped. vi, 56, 307). Woman’s 
work among the Mojos Indians comprises also the manufacture 
of earthenware (D’Orbigny, ut supra 233). Gibbon speaks of 
one Juana Jua Cayuba, a Mojos woman, who superintended the 
hired women who were engaged in moulding earthen jars (Expl. 
of the Valley of the Amazonas, p. 246). 
The Guarayos women also made pottery, and D’Orbigny 
speaks of the large vessels in which the dead of the tribe are 
buried (Frag. d'Une Voy. au Centre de l'Am. Meridionale, 193). 
Both the ancient and modern inhabitants of the Andes were 
famous potters, and the vases of the Huacas of Bolivia and Peru 
have long attracted the attention of ethnologists (von Tschudi y 
Rivero, Antiq. de Peru; Cat. du Musée de Sevres; D’Orbigny, 
Atlas d’Antiq. Peruv.; Brogniart, Arts Ceram., i, 525 ; Ewbank, 
Life in Brazil). The majority of Peruvian vessels were un- 
doubtedly formed in two or more pieces, in a mould, and after- 
wards luted together. Some of these molds were made from nat- 
ural objects, but others bear very elaborate raised figures. 
The women of the Indians of Ucayali are represented as being 
the potters. The Tobas of Mbocobi of the Chaco, manufacture 
immense chica pots like those of the Chiriguanos, the work fall- 
ing to the lot of the women, as was the case also among the 
Indians of Itaty, a village of Guaranis, situated at the confluence 
