352 Philip Ainsworth Means, 



Standing out from the inner band are twenty- four ray-like tabs 

 or tassels. These tassels, all of them conventionalized, fall into 

 three groups or classes, (i) The puma-headed tassels, six in 

 number and much conventionalized; (2) Tassels, seventeen in 

 number, composed of what look like ribbons ended off by stone 

 rings, but which cannot well be described with accuracy because 

 of their conventional nature: (3) One anthropomorphic tassel 

 showing the conventionalized face of a man with eyebrows and 

 nose shown continuous. The face of the Weeping God has been 

 destroyed by time to a deplorable extent, but two large round 

 eyes, deeply sunk, remain almost unharmed. From the eyes 

 hang two bands ended off with puma-heads. On each of the 

 bands are two sunken dots suggestive of "tears." The nose of 

 the figure has been shattered, but it was probably once quite 

 prominent. At present it is squarish and rather broad and long. 

 The whole face is covered over with traces of secondary orna- 

 mentation. The body is not separated from the head by any 

 definite neck. The mouth is a mere rectangular slit sunk in the 

 face, totally lacking in any true modelling, the body is short and 

 chunky, and the legs are much too short to be in proportion, 

 unless, indeed, a kneeling posture is indicated. The garment of 

 the figure is a short fringed skirt held up by shoulder-bands. The 

 top of the skirt is marked with rectangular decoration of a type 

 to be observed elsewhere on the carving, and by two puma-heads 

 similar to those on the headdress and elsewhere. The fringe 

 of the skirt is made up of six human faces of the same type 

 as that noted on the headdress. The shoulder-bands are adorned 

 with a conventionalized figure alternated with conventionalized 

 bird-heads. A large breast ornament hangs between the shoulder- 

 bands. It has the form of a fish In semi-lunar posture with his 

 head to the left and turned upward and his tail, to the right, also 

 turned upward. The face of the fish recalls the conventionalized 

 human faces already noted. Just below the fish is a repetition of 

 the conventionalized figure that appears on the shoulder-bands 

 and two other examples of the bird-heads that also appear there. 

 The arms of the Weeping God, though not at all true to nature, 

 are the best modelled parts of the figure. At each elbow are 

 two puma-heads, one above the other. From the two lower puma- 

 heads hang two more conventionalized human faces. The hands 

 of the figure have but four digits. In the right hand is a large 



