Quichuas

Remarkable specimens of pottery, from this Peruvian coast province, doubtle of remote antiquity, resemble in their freedom from conventionality and succe ful imitation of natural forms all primitive Egyptian and other sculpture. Jacquemart describes the vase of the illustration (on page 214 ) as the chef-d’œuvre of American ceramics; and, from the close resemblance of the features of the figure represented to certain groups of prisoners on the Egyptian bas-reliefs, as well as to the ethnic type of the ancient Japanese kings, makes important deductions with reference to the dispersion of mankind, and the commerce of the old and new worlds in prehistoric times.