A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors (1872)
Treadwell, John H · New York, Putnam · leaf 20
d Mexico, and as far north as Texas, wheretraces of it become lost. At the foot of Ometepec, a mountain island of LakeNicaragua, lies an enormous monolith, or deified stone:surrounding this is an incredible amount of debris, madeup mostly of broken vessels of pottery, some in sucha state of… … No. 1. A Peruvian Water Vessel. nearest point on this coast. It seems probable that itscommanding position and appearance—its height beingabout two thousand feet—suggested to the natives itspropriety as a house for this deity, and that these brokenvessels and remnants of old pottery are the…
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