Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . d articles. The figure at A, is from a Mexican painting on MS., (on preparedskin,) executed before the discovery—part of Boturinis collection, and now in thepossession of M. Aubin, of Paris. Here we have a genuine outline of a furnace forfusing metals, and for efficiency and economy of fuel its form could not easily be alteredfor the better. It is not quite
Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . d articles. The figure at A, is from a Mexican painting on MS., (on preparedskin,) executed before the discovery—part of Boturinis collection, and now in thepossession of M. Aubin, of Paris. Here we have a genuine outline of a furnace forfusing metals, and for efficiency and economy of fuel its form could not easily be alteredfor the better. It is not quite cylindrical, for its sides incline slightly inwards, and thusthe top is more contracted than the bottom. Two openings near the upper part per-mitted the blast of one or two blow-pipes to be directed upon the metal in the opening near the bottom admitted air. The workman appears to be clearing 448 STATE OF INDIAN ART. it with a rod in his right hand, while his left holds the blow-pipe, the blast from whichdrives out flames or sparks from the opposite opening. The furnace is a portable oneof clay or soapstone, and mounted on a stand or base, unless the part that appears tobe hollow, and a continuation of the Gold and Silver-smiths.
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