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represent jaguars. They are also illustrated in Borhegy’s chart as nos 12 and 15. 
Figure 36 (left) (Cat no 2366; Lot no C-69) is probably of the Early Pre-Classic 
Las Charcas phase (1000 B.C. to s00 B.C.), and as such ranks among the earliest 
known effigy mushroom stones. Figure 36 (right) is from tomb 1 in Mound E-III-3 
at Kaminaljuyu (Shook and Kidder, 1952, fig 78f) and is one of the first examples 
(Late Pre-Classic-Miraflores phase, 300 B.C.-300 A.D.) of this problematical sculp- 
ture to be excavated. Both specimens are now in the National Museum in Guatemala 
City (Cat no 2366 and 3450 respectively). 
Foster, Georce M. “Some implications of modern Mexican mold-made 
pottery.” Sthwest J Anthrop, VolIV, No 4, 1948, pp 356-370. 
According to Foster, some pre-Conquest Mexican pottery was made using convex 
musaroom-shaped pottery molds. These molds appear to have originated from the 
practice of molding pots over the upturned bottom of finished vessels. The same 
technique is still in use at several places in Mexico. 
Owing to the fact that some modern mushroom-shaped pottery molds from 
Tzintzuntzan and Metepec in Mexico (see figs 2, 3) and some Pre-Columbian pot- 
tery anvils from North America (see fig 6) have a slight resemblance to the Pre- 
Columbian pottery-mushrooms from Mexico and El Salvador (see nos 46, 47, 48 in 
Borhegyi’s chart), there exists the slight possibility that pottery-mushrooms were 
used, not in Pre-Columbian hallucinogenic mushroom rites, but to aid in the 
shaping and manufacturing of culinary pottery objects. (For publications referring 
to pottery-mushroomis see Longyear, Entry 94; Lothrop, Entry 95; Lowe, Entry 96; 
and Stirling, Entry 106). 
Gann, Tuomas. Glories of the Maya. London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 
1939, pp 204-6. 
Describes the discovery of a plain tripod mushroom stone (Type D) in association 
with a plain stone yoke, Tiquisate ware figurines, and cylindrical vases with human 
bones, in a Late Classic (600 to 900 A.D.) Pipil (?) burial ground at Patulul, near 
Cocales (Dept Suchitepequez) on the South Coast of Guatemala. No illustrations. 
Similar tripod mushroom stones were found and illustrated later from the same 
general area by Thompson, Entry ro. Gann mentions that mushroom stones are 
believed by some anthropologists to be phallic symbols because of their resemblance 
to the lingam. The whereabouts of the specimen excavated by Gann is unknown. 
. Hem, Rocer, AND R. Gorpon Wasson. 1958. Paris. See Entry 2, chap III, 
pp 113-121, figs 22, 23, pls X, XI, XII. 
Illustrates 9 crudely manufactured miniature clay cups (fig 23B) with mushroom- 
like appliqué designs collected by Marshall Saville between 1899-1900, from Xaaga, 
near Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. These curious cups are now in the collection of the 
American Museum of Natural History in New York. 
Line drawings (figs 22-23) illustrate five Type B and C mushroom stones, repro- 
duced from Borhegyi’s charts, nos 31, 15, 32, 25 respectively. Plate X illustrates a 
Type D tripod mushroom stone with carved stem in the Wasson private collection 
in New York (cf Borhegyi, no 38). Plate XI illustrates the Type C effigy mush- 
room stone, first published by Sapper (1 898) and now in the Rietberg Museum 
in Ziirich (cf. Borhegyi, no 19). Plate XII illustrates a Type B effigy mushroom stone 
with circularly grooved cap from the Hans Namuth private collection in New York. 
The specimen represents a young woman (a virgin?) kneeling before a metate. 
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