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Title: Bulletin
Identifier: bulletin14321946smit (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G. P. O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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244 SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS (B. A. E. Bull. 143 became a general name for pottery in Quechua, much as "china is used in English. Quechua has a wide variety of terms for pottery shapes. Certain peculiar features of Inca vessels deserve special notice. Annular bases were unknown in the Cuzco region before the Spanish Conquest, but cooking pots had a stem and foot, like a goblet, or else three solid cylindrical feet (pi. 77, /)• Flat or concave covers with loop handles were also used. Rims were usually flaring or else a flat lip was added, but thickening was not used. Modeled ornament includes puma-head knobs on liquid jars, plate handles in the shape of bird heads, eyes and noses added to jar necks, and simple modeled
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Figure 28.—Late Inca polychrome bowl. pi. 76.) (Redrawn from Bandelier, 1910, snakes or buttons on cooking pots. Other forms are very rare. In- cised and stamped decoration was not ordinarily used. Braziers and small stoves were made out of pottery (pi. 77, g). (See Bing- ham, 1915 b, p. 206; 1930, figs. 125-126.) Pottery was also used for dice (Bingham, 1915, p. 176; 1930, ^g. 172, b-h), spindle whorls (Bing- ham, 1915 b, p. 208; 1930, figs. 182-183), and ladles (Pardo, 1939, pi. 2, g, h, i). Settlers from all parts of the Empire came to Cuzco after it was rebuilt by Pachacuti, and brought their own local pottery. North Coast (Late Chimu black ware), South Coast (lea style black ware), and Colla and Lupaca Provinces (Chucuito polychrome and Sillus- tani polychrome) wares have been identified in excavations in Cuzco. Many other pieces will probably turn out to be styles of distant origin when more is known. Woodworking.—The Inca made wooden cups, spoons, and stools, and used wood in roofing houses, making looms, and building Utters.

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