Moisès Villèlia’s fascination for the so-called natural cultures, expressed in a multitude of ways throughout his career, reached the point of motivating in him, albeit episodically, the ambitions of a scientist of pre-history, when he wrote a valuable short essay based on studies that he undertook of the extinct Quitu-Cara people during his stay in Ecuador. There is a significant document in this essay, published in 1972, because it goes into detail on the functional dimension of specific ceramic objects found by archaeologists. Moreover, it outlines his reading of their decorative ornaments which were used as an ideographic register...