88 Pottery Among Savage Races. [ February, 
of the Parana and Paraguay (D’Orbigny L’Homme Am, ii, 100; 
Voyage, &c., i, 199; Brogniart i, 530). 
Dobritzhoffer says, “ The American women seem to have a 
natural talent for making various articles. They can mold pots 
and jugs of various forms of clay, not with the assistance of a 
turning machine like potters, but with their hands alone. These 
clay vessels they bake, not in an oven but out of doors, placing 
sticks around them. . 
The pottery of the Payaguas, of Paraguay, was the work of 
women. Among the Guaycurus, pottery appears to have been 
woman’s work, for Prado tells us that, in this tribe were found 
men who affect all the manners of women, not only dressing like 
them but occupying themselves in spinning, weaving, making 
pots, etc. (Hist., in Revista Trimensal do Inst. Hist. i, 32). 
Hans Staden, who was a captive among the Tupinambas, 
relates that the women of that tribe were the potters. The ves- 
sels after having been dried in the air and painted with lines of 
different colors, were turned upside down on stones, and burned - 
by heaping bark about them and setting it on fire (DeBry, 
Americae, 3d Part, ii, xiv, 3; See also DeBry, Hist. Nav: m 
Braziliam, p. 133, 141, 142, 239). 
The women of the Arraial do Barro, opposite the Island “of 
Sao Sebastiao are said to have made excellent ware aii de Veri- 
fier les Dates, 13, p. I10). 
The women of the Mongoyos prepared the clay on a banana 
leaf held upon the knee. It was then placed upon a “plateau” 
of sifted ashes, and the vessel, after fashioning and polishing, 
was submitted to the action of fire. 
A writer on Brazil (Noticia do Brazil, Lisboa, 1825, iii, 1, 286), © 
says, that the old Tupinambá women made pottery by hand, 
some of which were big enough to hold a pipe. They also made 
pots, mugs and pans, This pottery, which was sometimes painted, 
was burned in a pit, a wood fire being made above. They super- . ; 
stitiously believed that if any one but the person who moulded the 
pottery were to attempt to burn it, the vessel would bitak to 
pieces in the fire. 
Spix and Martius hisia 1824, ii, 246) tell us that the 
Coroado women provide the requisite earthenware for the family. 
Pottery is still made by the civilized Indian women in many parts — 
= of Brazil south of the Amazonas. Old women make earthenware 
