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Cooking in Northern Scotland, up until the 19th century when stoves were introduced, was done at the open hearth, at floor level. If there was a stone chimney, a sway, links and cruik were used to hold the cooking pots over the fire. Usually cooking was done over a peat or turf fire, although very poor people sometimes used dock stalks or animal dung as fuel. This is a 19th century brander from a hearth at Darnabo, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire. The links hold the brander, or barred girdle, nearer to the fire and its height can be adjusted. The quality of the sway, cruik and links often denote the prosperity of the household. All the equipment here is good quality.]]> ABDUA:8783]]> ABDUA:8270]]> ABDUA:8278]]> ABDUA:8541]]> ABDUA:8062]]> ABDUA:8105]]>
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Clay figurines appear in graves and the household debris of the earliest farmenrs in Mexico, and continued to be made and used by successive civilisations until the Spanish Conquest. Those made by farming communities of the Mexican Neolithic most often represent women, with exaggeration of the breasts and buttocks, perhaps reflecting a concern with human fertility and increase. Images of a later period, especially those from the great classical city of Teotihuacan, illustrate a variety of gods and human types, reflecting the richness and diversity of an elaborate priest-temple cult. small, fired, white clay figurines which were dug up by a workman excavating a trench near Tampico, Vera Cruz State, Mexico, in the 1920's. The figures were all of females and many had exaggerated hips and large buttocks. They are naked and the breasts, navel and vulva are often depicted, and also sometimes the feet and head, but these are not always modelled, and they are small and insignificant. Although the forms of the figurines varies, the essential style emphasises the female sexual characteristics and minimises the head and limbs. They are thought to be prehistoric, certainly Pre-Columbian and probably dating from the first millennium BC.

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