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SOUTH AMERICA. 
Stone Implements, Pottery, &c., from South America. 
Cases A 52, E 10 to E 13. 
Ecuador. 
A 52. 
Nos. 3, 7, and 8 are stone implements from Ecuador. No. 3 
is of simple wedge-shaped form. (Paris Exhibition, 1867.) A 
stone hatchet of similar type can be seen in Case E 2, No. 20, 
in its original wooden handle. This specimen is from British 
Guiana, and was presented to the Collection by Mr. W. 
Morrison, M.P. 
No. 8 has two lateral projections at the butt-end ; probably 
these were of use in attaching the implement to the handle. 
Varieties of this type are abundant in South America, although 
they are frequently of smaller size than No. 8. 
No. 7 is a dentated stone implement, with a drilled central 
hole ; it was found in Ecuador, and was perhaps intended for 
arming a club. Tablet 5 <2 is an obsidian flake, and b is an 
obsidian arrow-head, both found near Guayaquil, Ecuador. 
(Paris Exhibition, 1867.) 
A 52- 
Upon Tablet 4 are some terra-cotta beads with incised orna- 
ments, found in a tola near the village of Naranjal, Ecuador. 
(Paris Exhibition, 1867.) Upon Tablet 6 is an obsidian 'flake, 
a terra-cotta bead, and some copper ornaments found in some 
Indian graves, near Naranjal. (Paris Exhibition, 1867.) 
Pottery from Ecuador. 
E 12. 
The pottery shown from Ecuador was found at Porto-Viejo. 
After floods the banks of the river founder, and pottery and 
other antiquities are met with in the detritus. All the specimens 
from Ecuador were obtained from the Paris Exhibition, 
1867. 
No. 1. — Small flgurc of brown ware, in the form of a bird 
