. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . , and this could notbe had. Silver articles were nearly as bronze and copper antiquities, when found,are often melted down, from the suppositionthat they are alloyed with gold. The annexedfigure of the head of a silver pin is an exampleof a class which was formerly common and isnow rare. The six-rayed star at the bottom ofthis page, and the two hatchets upon page 278 (which were part ofa large find, at Cuenca) are nearly all that I obtained in bronze. The popular idea of Peruvian (Ecuadorian)pottery is derived from the grotesque bl
. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . , and this could notbe had. Silver articles were nearly as bronze and copper antiquities, when found,are often melted down, from the suppositionthat they are alloyed with gold. The annexedfigure of the head of a silver pin is an exampleof a class which was formerly common and isnow rare. The six-rayed star at the bottom ofthis page, and the two hatchets upon page 278 (which were part ofa large find, at Cuenca) are nearly all that I obtained in bronze. The popular idea of Peruvian (Ecuadorian)pottery is derived from the grotesque blackware that is found in most museums. Squiersays of this that the greater part has beenbrought from the coast districts of I saw little of it in Ecuador, and 1 It is safe to say that three-fourths of the pottery found in the museums ofEurope and America, and called Peruvian, came from the coast or near it, and ofthis probably much the largest portion from the region ruled by the princes ofChimu (near Truxillo).— Peru, pp.
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