

vations on a < 'olleetion of 



iature copy 6f the Large bmfrveHtf found by Mr. Stephens 

 in an inner chamber of one of the rained structures of Palenque 

 , |-'i. ibont one-third of ihe length of the- carved chalchi- 



buit], measuring from the top, it is drilled through from edge to 

 edge, the hole being a little less than two-tenths of an inch in 



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diameter; the drilling having been made from each side to the 



iv. where the two drillings run one into the other, with a 



slightly diminished bore. The purpose of this Beems to have 



to Buspend the object from the neck or other pari of the 



- Mi ; but the hack edges of the plate are also pierced 

 diagonally, aa if to afford means of fastening it to cloth or other 

 material, without those means Bhowing in front. 



Fig. 4. — The next relic in importance is of a similar hut 



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more opaque material, which, were it not for a strip of clear 

 quartz on one edge, might be mistaken for enamel. It is a 

 Bemi-disk in Bhape, four and a half inches in length by two 

 and tenths in greatest width. It Bhows a human face in 



full front, Burmonnted by a kind of heraldic shield, and sur- 

 ronnded by a profusion of feather ornaments, with huge 

 ■ / and other ornament! below the chin. It, too, is 

 I near its tipper i longitudinally from side to side. 



hack show.s that it v. ,s n from a solid block of the 



nan srial, both from above and below, until, the cutting 



