Excerpt from Bulletin 143 of the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology, Handbook of South American Indians, Volume 2 (The Andean Civilizations), containing the title page and the opening of Junius B. Bird's chapter on the cultural sequence of the North Chilean coast. Only two plates of textiles are included: Plate 126 shows textiles from a child burial at Playa Miller, Arica, including a kerchief, meal bag, matting fragment and coca bag, and Plate 128 shows prehistoric coca bags and a kerchief from the Arica area with two-face warp designs.