. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . EXAMPLES OF OLD INDIAN POTTERY COLLECTED BY THE AUTHOR IN ECUADOR. Ohap. xiv. FORMS OF UTENSILS ORDINARILY EMPLOYED. 279 cooked their food over wood fires ; and these pointed and roundedbottoms to their utensils, though quite unsuited for placing uponsmooth surfaces, would keep erect in the embers, or might bepressed into the earthen floor. The natives did not depend exclusively upon these simplevessels. In the accompanying plate a number of the more ordi-. SOME OF THE LESS COMMON FORMS. nary forms are grouped of their pots, bowls, jars, jugs,
. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . EXAMPLES OF OLD INDIAN POTTERY COLLECTED BY THE AUTHOR IN ECUADOR. Ohap. xiv. FORMS OF UTENSILS ORDINARILY EMPLOYED. 279 cooked their food over wood fires ; and these pointed and roundedbottoms to their utensils, though quite unsuited for placing uponsmooth surfaces, would keep erect in the embers, or might bepressed into the earthen floor. The natives did not depend exclusively upon these simplevessels. In the accompanying plate a number of the more ordi-. SOME OF THE LESS COMMON FORMS. nary forms are grouped of their pots, bowls, jars, jugs, and larger vessels, in which the more serious culinary operationswould be performed, are provided with feet (see H—K), or evenwith legs (see figure at the bottom of the illustration on this page).Some have a pair of handles low down (b, M, N, 0) that would be 280 TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES, chap. xiv. convenient to hold when pouring out liquids; others have verydiminutive handles high up, by which the vessels were probablysuspended. The ordinary single handle, seen in E and W, is lessoften found than the double ones.
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