interior of the vessel showed the casts of strife on the mould. 

 The exterior surface was moderately well worked down, showing, 

 however, long, hard marks of the finishing tool. There were no 

 signs either of ornament or of glazing. 



The four ygagdbas were separated one from the other by little 

 sticks, which circumstance makes me suspect that they were all 

 deposited together. 



On the surface of the ground near the pots, but in a position 

 which I am unable to indicate on the plan, was found the body of 

 a child probably wrapped up in bast. 



No. 11. Mummied bodies of a mother and new-born child, 

 wrapped in the same hammock. These most interesting speci- 

 mens are preserved in the Museu Nacional where I have had an 

 opportunity of examining them. The body of the woman is a nat- 

 ural mummy, simply preserved in a half decomposed and dry 

 state. The skin remains on nearly the whole body, and, so per- 

 fect is the state of preservation, that the lower lip remains, and 

 the feet are simply shrivelled up. The body reclines somewhat on 

 the left side. The head is turned to the left. The left hand was 

 placed on the breast and the right was held just above the abdo- 

 men. The legs, partially drawn up, are bent over to the left. 

 The body bears no ornament. 



By the left side of the corpse was found a little bundle con- 

 taining the dried-up, natural mummy of a new-born babe, much 

 doubled up and wrinkled and but little discolored. The skin is 

 well preserved. The left arm bears a sort of band of woven 

 string, and on one leg is a string of beads made of rather wide 

 sections of a hollow bone strung on a coarse thread, a touch- 

 ing evidence of tenderness. The body was wrapped up in bast, 

 and tied outside with a coarse string which passed through the 

 fingers of the right hand of the woman, who in death was thus 

 closely united to her offspring. It is very probable that the wo- 

 man died in childbirth, but this is a question in medical juris- 

 prudence which I am not competent to decide. Both mother and 

 child were buried in the same hammock, which is in a fair Btatfl 

 of preservation and accompanies the body in the museum, but, as 

 it has been removed from the mummies, it is not possible to de- 

 termine the manner in which it was wound about them. The ham- 

 mock consists of rather coarse cotton thread, and is constructed 

 like that in which the body of the young person, No. 6, is en- 



