Abstract
THE pottery described in the first of the papers men-tioned below was mainly obtained in the province of Catamarca. The specimens are illustrated by handsome coloured plates drawn from photographs. The earliest type includes bowls and jars, ornamented in white, red, and black in imitation of the woven patterns of basket-work. Similar ornamentation is found in the baskets, cloth, and pottery of New Mexico and California. Another type, with red and black colouring, shows either geometrical designs or outlines of animals, especially frogs and snakes, usually conventional in character. Among the objects depicted are the anura, Ccratophys ornata and Leptodactylus ocellatus, and the ophidia Elaps frontalis and Lachesis alternatus, as well as the rhea and puma and a fern, a species of Hymenophyllum. There are also crude representations of human beings.
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E., J. Prehistoric Argentina 1 . Nature 79, 502 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079502a0
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