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Show 18G ART OF AMERICAN NATIONS. passes in beauty all we knew be~ re of tho art of the Red-race. ;r'?e simplicity of design, the exqms1te finish of ex cution, and tho earnest expression of the head in question (to which our wood-cut do s not do adequate justice), place it on an equal footing with the productions of any Japetide race. Still, the Indian chnrncter of tbe features attests sufficiently its indigenous origin. We owe this gem of American sculpture to th liberality of Mn. SQumrt; whose name is associated with so many importa11t reaeaeches a11d nterprise , that h has been able eaRily to trnnsict· to us tlJC honor of publisl1ing the best of all Am rican statuar-y. To it we add, as specimens of 1entml American style, three heads from one of Lis published works.206 Fig. 80. 0 llATII)!ALlAN-IDOL. Fi~. 81. Fig. 82. Fig. 88. NIOARAOUAN. NICARAGUAN. NJOAitAOUAN. W o cory from the work of DE RIVERO and voN 'l'scnunr, 206 tho following terra-cotta head [84], as a specimen of Peruvian art; and, in order to show the affinity of Indian art all over America, we compare jt with a Mexican terra-cotta l1oad [85].207 Tho resemblance in artistic treatment between both :flgnr s is most striking. Tschudi, with an exaggeration easily explicable in tho discoverer and commentator of monuments formerly unknown, compares his P ruvian vase to any Etruscan worl· of pottery; but, even if we must diAscnt from hi.s view in respect to tho workmanship of tho head pub-m Nicaragua, Now York, 1852-No. 81, from i., p. 802, "ldol f'1·om Momotombito.,"-No. 82, from ii., p. 62, " .Idols at Zapatero"-No. 88, ii., p. 52, ~ume sculptures. :tOO Anti,qtudadt8 Peruana8, Vienna, 4.to., 1851, Atl1~s, laminu ix.-hoad on a vase. 207 A ntiquiUa .bfexicainca, 2ndo Exp6dition, pl. xxiv. fig. 71, p. 20. ART OF AMERICAN NATIONS. 187 lishecl by him, we may admit the high proii. ·ioucy of Peruvian art, Fig. 84. PERUVIAN VASJ!. Fig. 85. J\h~XIOAN n;!lltA-COTTA. when we behold two most CX<)l~isitc terra-cotta heads of the Dritisl1 Museum; whi ·h, according to the label on them, wore found in tho neighborhood of Lake Titicaca. Doth of them arc hero edited for tho first time. The malo head [86] compares advantageonsly with works of Egyptian or Etruscan artisan hip, whilst preserving tho character of the Indian race; aod tho female head [87], with its artifLCial Fig. 80. Fig. 87. PERUVIAN MAT.J~. deformity of tho skull, gives us the highest idea of the artistical endowments of tho Aymaras. These few specimens of the indigcnons ante-Columbian art of .America show sufficiently tho constancy of tho Indian type-as preserved now in tho very geographical province whence each relic has |