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that this is due to circumstances being more favourable to 
their discovery at tile Balata tlian at the two other places. 
POTTERY FRAGMENTS WITH IMPRESSIONS 
OF TEXTILES 
The fragments to be described are, as already indicated, 
of two classes, namely, those with impressions of basketwork, 
or possibly in a few instances, of cloths, and those with im- 
pressions of network combined with basketwork. I llave pre- 
pared casts of all the pieces, so obtaining an exact reproduc- 
tion in reíief of the cord or wicker fabrics whicli llave left their 
imprints in the clay. These are so wonderfully clear as to make 
it possible to reproduce the basketwork and other textiles, and 
this has been done in the case of the network. In the illus- 
trations the figure marked (a) is that of the pottery fragment 
itself, (¿) shows the mould obtained from it and ( c ) is the re- 
construction of the design ( l ). 
I. IMPRESSIONS OF BASKETS OR CLOTHS 
I have selected for description fourteen examples ( 2 ) of 
basketwork impressions. As basketwork in relation to the pot- 
ter’s art is already well known, I have not given it the same 
attention as that devoted to network, contenting myself with 
dividing the examples into five types, rather as a means of 
(1) I have been greatly assisted in the preparation of this paper by my wite, par- 
ticularly in regard to the in vestigation of the methods of making the network, and to 
her I am indebted for the reproductions of the various types of eord netting and 
weaving, as well as for the rentarles on the technic. To Professor Carlos Bruch of the 
I.a Plata Museun for the photographic illustrations, and to Dr. Samuel A. X.afone 
Quevedo, Director of the same Instituto, for much valued assistance in many ways, 
my grateful thanks are due. 
(2) These are numbered in my eollection as R 1, T i, B 1, B 2, B 3, B 4, B 6, B 7, 
B 9, B 10, B 16, B 17, B 19, B 20. I have left out of account a few examples the mart- 
inas of which are not very distin et, their varieties of weaving being already represented 
among those desciibed. 
