106. 
107. 
108. 
Mentions the finding of plain mushroom stones (Type C) near the Grijalva River 
at the archeological site called La Grandeza in Chiapas. Although Sorenson does 
not illustrate them, the stones appear to be similar to the ones reported by Kidder, 
Jennings, and Shook (Entry 92 fig 160a, b) from nearby Ococingo, Chiapas (now in 
the Regional Museum at Tuxla Gutiérrez), and reproduced as no 32 in Borhegyi’s 
chart. 
STIRLING, MatrHew W. “An archacological reconnaissance in Southeastern 
Mexico.” Bull No 164 Bur Amer Ethnol. Anthropological Papers No 53; pp 
213-40. Washington, D. C., 1957. Pottery mushrooms, Plates 9 i, e, fh, and 
65 a-3; pp 238-9. 
Five pottery mushrooms (Type E) are illustrated upside down and described 
mistakenly as tall pottery jars with round “bottoms” expanded to bowl shape. The 
“bottoms” are roughened by textile imprints and by stamping them with crinkled 
edges of pecten shell. One specimen (fig 65 a-3) was found in a sealed tomb at the 
site of Isla (near Paraiso and Bellote) in association with typical Maya Proto-Classic 
(200 to 300 A.D.) pottery (unbridged spouted vessels, mammiform feet, etc.). Four 
similar pottery mushrooms were found in a shell mound at Ceiba, also near Bellote 
in the State of Tabasco, not far from the Atlantic. This find helps us to assign a tenta- 
tive proto-Classic date to the pottery mushrooms found throughout Southern 
Mexico (Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Oaxaca, Chiapas) and Eastern El Salvador. 
Similar (Type E) pottery mushrooms are reproduced as nos 46, 47, 48 in Borhegyi’s 
chart. The specimens found by Stirling are in the Regional Museum at Villahermosa 
in Tabasco. 
STROMSVIK, GusTAV. “Exploration of the Cave of Dzab-Na, Tecoh, Yuca- 
tan.”” Carnegie Institution of Washington. Current Reports, Vol II, No 35, 
Cambridge, Mass., pp 463-470. Sce pp 466, 468, fig 29. 
Illustrates and describes the only possible mushroom stone fragment (stem and 
lower portion missing) ever reported from Yucatan where mushroom stones seem 
to be absent. Fragment was found by Stromsvik in the South East gallery of the 
Dzab-Na Cave, located near the village of Tecoh, south of Mérida. It was discovered 
in association with a slate-ware bowl, a wooden statuette, and six broken metates 
with short manos. The specimen consists only of a cap, so that it cannot be ascertained 
for sure whether it was a grinding implement or, less likely, the top portion of a 
mushroom stone. Similar doubt is expressed by Heim and Wasson, Entry 2(p 117, 
foot 1). This is why it was omitted from the distributional list of Borhegyi. The 
fragment along with other material from the cave is in the Regional Museum at 
Mérida, in Yucatan. 
Termer, Franz. “Auf den Spuren ratselhafter Volker in Siid-Guatemala.”’ 
Die Umschau, Frankfurt-a-M, No 26, 1942. pp 389-392. See fig 7. 
Illustrates, as fig 7, a zoomorphic mushroom stone (Type C) representing a toad(?) 
from Guazacapan (Dept Santa Rosa) on the Southeastern Coast of Guatemala. 
Termer believes that the specimen may pertain to the Pipil culture, known to have 
influenced this area during the Classic period (300-900 A.D.), and that it represents a 
fertility idol, in the form of a phallus, attached to the back of this toad. The specimen 
is similar to a toad-shaped mushroom stone from Cerro Alux, near Mixco (Guatemala 
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