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Hotchstetter states : — “ I was fully convinced here that the 
Indians buried their dead in the houses where they had re- 
sided, as I dug up many of them. They appear to have been 
buried with whatever belonged to them at the time of their 
death. I have found women with their pots, pans, and jars of 
earthenware, some of which are very curious. One kind is 
composed of two hollow spheres, each about three inches in 
diameter ; they are connected by a small tube placed in the 
centre, and a hollow arched handle to hold it by, having a 
hole on the upper side ; if water be poured into this hole till 
the jar is about half full, and the jar be then inclined first to 
one side and then to the other, a whistling noise is produced. 
Sometimes a figure of a man stands on each jar, and the 
water is poured down an opening in his head, and by the 
same means the noise is occasioned. I saw one of these at 
the Carmelite nunnery at Quito, having two Indians upon it 
carrying a corpse on their shoulders, laid on a hollow bier 
resembling a butcher’s tray ; when the jar was inclined back- 
wards and forwards a plaintive cry was heard, resembling 
that made by the Indians at a funeral. The jars and other 
utensils were of good clay, and well baked, which, with the 
ingenious construction just alluded to, prove that the Indians 
were acquainted with the art of pottery.” 
The Costarica Indians of Central America dance as a mani- 
festation of grief on the death of their chiefs. The Maori 
also had their funereal dance, the maemae, so likewise with 
the Malay and Hindu. The Maori also, like the Irish, howl 
over the dead, and then feast; perhaps this is one of the 
oldest and most general customs of all. 
The Mexican spade was called a ho, so also the Maori one, in 
shape it is formed like a paddle with a rest for the toe, about 
a foot from the ground. The Peruvian likewise had one, 
which was forced through the ground by six or eight men 
pulling it by ropes, the ploughman resting all his weight 
upon it. 
Tbe Peruvian word for queen, coy a, closely resembles 
the Maori huia, also applied to a lady of rank; amongst 
some of the North American natives the word for woman 
