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CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



Before leaving Peten, notices in Spanish to the chicle-workers, to be 

 on the lookout for new sites during their excursions into the bush 

 during the current rainy season, were extensively distributed in the 

 frontier towns and chicle camps. 

 Adequate rewards were offered for 

 such information, and it is antici- 

 pated that other new sites will be 

 located in the region as a result of 

 this measure. 



The second trip (to Copan, Hon- 

 duras) also had satisfactory issue. 

 Upon the arrival of the expedition 

 at the village, the alcalde for the 

 current year, Don Tobias Guerra, 

 arranged for a special session of the 

 cabildo, all the villagers being in- 

 vited to attend. At this meeting 

 "The Inscriptions at Copan" was 

 formally presented to the munici- 

 pality in the name of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington and ac- 

 cepted by the village authorities. 

 This ceremony was duly entered 

 into the Book of the Acts of the 

 Cabildo of Copan, and a certified 

 copy of the act was furnished for 

 deposition in the archives of the 

 Institution. 



During the past five years Mr. 

 Morley has made annual visits to 

 Copan and the villagers have warm- 

 ly cooperated in the Institution's in- 

 vestigations there. Equally friendly 

 relations have been established with 

 the central authorities at Tegucigalpa, the capital, and the way 

 paved for closer cooperation in the future. 



The field season closed with a visit to Guatemala City, where 

 arrangements were perfected with the Guatemalan government, 

 through the Ministry of Foreign Relations, for continuing the archaeo- 

 logical exploration of Peten next season, and a permit was secured for 

 excavating anywhere in the department, it being understood that all 

 specimens recovered should remain in the republic. There exists a 

 friendly and sympathetic interest in the Institution's activities in 

 both Guatemala and Honduras (the southern Maya field), and the 

 opportunity for intensive archseological investigations in either of these 

 countries was never so favorable as it is now. 



Fig. 2. — A, Stela 3, Xultun, recording the 

 date 10.1.10.0.0 of the Maya Era, approxi- 

 mately 600 A. D. B, Stela 10, Xultun, re- 

 cording the date 10.3.0.0.0 approximately 

 630 A. D. 



