96. 
97. 
98. 
and Villacorta, Entry 111, p 123) anthropomorphic mushroom stone with a square 
base (Type C) from Majadas, a section of Kaminaljuyu; and a stone mushroom 
cap (Type A) from the archeological site of Chukumuk, on the Southeast shore of 
Lake Atitlin in Guatemala (reproduced as no 9 in Borhegyi’s chart). Lothrop does 
not attempt to describe their distribution or their function. The stone mushroom 
cap illustrated by Lothrop as fig 9b is now in the collection of the Guatemalan 
National Museum (Cat no 1 169). A similar stone mushroom cap from the archeo- 
logical site of Xikomuk, also at Lake Atitl4n (Guatemalan National Museum, Lot no 
E-194), is reproduced as no 11 in Borhegyi’s chart. Lothrop’s article is the first 
to mention and illustrate a stone mushroom cap and “pottery mushrooms.” (For 
other publications referring to pottery mushrooms see Longyear, Entry 94; Stirling, 
Entry 106; and Lowe, Entry 96.) 
Lowe, Gareta W. “Archeological exploration of the Upper Grijalva 
River, Chiapas, Mexico.” Papers of the New World Archeological Foundation, 
No 2, Orinda, California, 1959. See pottery ‘mushrooms,’ pp 75-76, figs 20f, 
50a; stone ‘mushrooms,’ pp 49, figs 6oc, d. 
Illustrates and describes a pottery mushroom (Type E) found at the archeological 
site of Guanacaste, near the Grijalva River, Chiapas, and two plain mushroom stones 
(Type C) from Chiapa de Corzo in Central Chiapas, Mexico. Lowe believes that the 
pottery mushrooms in Chiapas may have Salvadorean origin. The specimens now 
are in the Regional Museum at Tuxla Gutiérrez in Chiapas. 
—. “Mound 5 and minor excavations, Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, 
Mexico.” Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, No 12 (Publica- 
tion No 8). Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. 1962, p 64, fig 40). 
Illustrates (fig 40j) and describes (p 64) a Type C mushroom stone reportedly 
found in a burial (burial no r) located in a small mound group at Mango Seco, 800 
m. east of Chiapa de Corzo. The burial also contained nine undecorated pottery 
vessels, and a jade necklace and earspools. The mushroom stone, discovered below 
the right foot of the skeleton of an adult, is of pecked and ground limestone. The 
burial and its contents are dated to the Mid-Pre-Classic (500-300 B.C.) Francesa phase. 
The specimen is now in the Regional Museum at Tuxtla Gutiérrez in Chiapas, 
(Mu no 61-LIV-34). 
Punaricu, ANpryA. “Mushroom Icons.” Bull Mycol So San Francisco, Vol 
IX, No 12, 1959, pp 8-10, 16. 
Illustrates and comments on two (Type C) effigy mushroom stones from Highland 
Guatemala; reproduced as Nos 17 and 13 in Borhegyi 1958, 1961. For other items 
by this author see Entry 141 and sec vin. 
. Ravicz, RosBert. 1961. See Entry 143, pp 91-02. 
Ravicz renews the suggestion first made by the Wassons that mushroom stones 
may have been used in Mexico in Pre-Columbian times as part of the hallucinogenic 
sacred mushroom ceremony. Among the present day Mixtecs the sacred mushrooms 
are gathered by a virgin, ground on a metate, water added, and the beverage drunk 
by the person who wishes to consult the mushroom. The association of Pre-Colum- 
bian mushroom stones and their use for similar purposes with metates is discussed by 
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