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at Salto, Uruguay. This specimen was presented to the Col- 
lection by M. Ed. Durassie. (Paris Exhibition, 1867.) 
Pottery from New Granada. 
E 13. 
No. 3. Vessel of brown ware, with two spouts, connected by 
a handle, and ornamented with lines scratched after it had 
been fired. (Paris Exhibition, 1867.) 
Pottery from British Guiana. 
E 13. 
Nos. 4 and 5. Rude terra-cotta figures of a man and a woman, 
made by the Macoushi Indians, British Guiana. (H. C. Whit- 
lock's Collection, Exhibition, 1862.) 
No. 6. Bowl of brown ware, made by the Caribisi Indians, 
river Essequebo, British Guiana. The vessel is glazed in the 
inside only, and is ornamented with red lines, chiefly, and more 
carefully, upon the inside. (George Dennis' Collection, Christy 
Museum.) 
A 52. 
No. 20 is a stone hatchet said to have come from South 
America. It was presented to the Collection by Mr. Jones. 
CENTRAL AMERICA. 
The Objects from Central America are exhibited in 
Cases A 41, C 33, C 43, and E 8. 
Chiriqui. 
An interesting series of objects is shown from some ancient 
Indian graves, at Chiriqui, in Veraguas, south-west of Panama, 
on the Isthmus of Darien. 
In the autumn of 1858, two Spanish Creole farmers of 
Chiriqui, named Ignacio Guerra and Victorio Pitti, while har- 
vesting a crop of corn, accidentally discovered a golden image, 
which had been exposed by the uprooting of a plant. They 
