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by hand in S. Paulo. The clay is mixed by being trodden under 
the feet of oxen, the vessels being formed by coiling or by mold- 
ing in several pieces. The clay is sometimes worked into a thin 
sheet, which is applied to the surface of a wooden mold. The 
outside is worked down with the wetted hand and the application 
of acorn cob. After the vessel has dried to the proper con- 
sistency, it is cut in two, the mold is removed, and the two pieces 
are skilfully luted together. Pottery is made in the same way in 
Bahia. 
Except in the olarias, where earthen vessels are made ona 
large scale, men nowhere in the Amazon region have anything 
to do with this industry. (On the manufacture of pottery by 
women in various parts of S. America, see Baena, Ensaio Coro- 
graphico do Para, sub voce “Monte Alegre;” Candido Mendez 
de Almeida, Pinsonia, 1873, 28; Herndon, Explor., 202; Wal- 
lace, Travels, 172; Debret, Voyage Pittoresque, Paris, 1834, 
Catalogue du Musée Ceramique de Sévres ; Brogniart, Arts Cer- 
amiques, i, 532; Humboldt, Personal Narrative, i, 196; Gili, 
Storia Americana, ii, 315; Gumilla, Histoire Naturelle, &c., de 
l'Orénoque, i, 268; Schomburgk, Hakluyt Soc., Discov. of 
Guiana by Sir W. Raleigh, 64, note ; zd. Journ. Eth. Soc., Lond., 
1848, i, 267; Art de Vérifier les Dates T. 15, 285; Perez, Jeog- 
raphia de los Estados Unidos de Columbia, i, ‘485 ; Bull. Soc. 
d’Anth. Paris, T.i, Serie i, 1866, 403; Squier, Rare and Original 
Documents and Relations, p. 46; Bibliotheca de Autores Es- 
pafioles, Historiadores primitivos de los Indias, i, 348). 
Dr. Berendt writes from Yucatan that “certain classes of pot- 
tery, manufactured in some towns of the interior, are not only 
carried all over the country, but exported to other parts of Mex- 
ico, and even to Havana; among them are unglazed basins for 
cooling drinking water, also large and small water-jars, some 
preserving the ancient Yucatan forms, others imitating foreign 
models. These are made by men, mestizoes, and mostly by 
hand, on the turning wheel. In some places far away in the 
interior, or without any connection with the larger centers of 
trade, as also in Peten, the proceeding is still more primitive, and ` 
is exclusively in the hands of women. They search for the clay, 
load it on the backs of children, and work it on the metate before 
fashioning it with the hands. Large jars they generally form from 
two pieces. I have not seen that they mix their clay with ashes; _ 
