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feeding, attracting, appeasing, or beseeching the unseen beings. 

 These and other unformulated acts associated mth fire have been 

 observed throughout the world among peoples of different degrees 

 of culture. 



(b) Great stone braziers, generally of hourglass shape, erected on 



masonry bases before temples or shrines. (Mexico.) 

 Stone basins borne by animal or human figures placed at 



shrines or sacred locations. (Chiapas, Yucatan, Mexico; 



Costa Rica; Honduras; and Guatemala.) 

 Circular stones on short pediments or carj^atides; "altars" of 



shrines, in temples. (Yucatan and Honduras.) 



(c) Large pottery vessels of hourglass shape ornamented with 



masks, bands, knots, knobs, and spurs, and painted in colors. 



Placed as the stone braziers before temples or at shrines. 



Essentially Nahuatl. (Nahuatl Mexico; Guatemala; Costa 



Rica.) 

 II. Special. 



1. POETASiLE. 



(a) Braziers of small size used in dwellings. Of various forms. 



(Mexico.) 



(b) Tripod censers consisting of a bowl mounted on three splayed 



feet preserving in general the hourglass form. Set on the 

 ground. (Southern Mexico; Costa Rica.) 



(c) Bowl censers, bearing a mask and other rudiments of human 



or animal forms, as in the monolithic braziers. (See I, h) 

 (Chiapas and Yucatan, Mexico; Guatemala; Costa Rica.) 



2. GESTUBE CENSERS. 



(a) Flaring bowl with rudimentary handle and spurs representing 



other feet of tripod. (Oaxaca, Mexico.) 



(b) Openwork pottery tripod vessel, one leg of which is extended 



to form a handle. Rattle feet. (Zapotec area, southern 

 Mexico.) 



(c) Spoon with truncated handle. Ventilation holes in bowl. 



Rude. (Zapotec area, southern Mexico.) 

 Small spoons with conventional animal handle. (Southern 

 Mexico; Costa Rica.) 



(d) Incense ladle consisting of a bowl ventilated mth openwork 



pattern and having a long, hollow handle containing rattles 

 and terminating in a serpent or other head. Nahuatl form. 

 (Central Mexico.) 



(e) Tubular pipes for incensing the esoteric beings and cardinal 



points. Pipes in general cult uses. (Ancient and modern 

 Pueblos and other Indians, also northern Mexico aiid other 

 Mexican localities.) 

 (/) Cigarettes. (Mexico and ancient Pueblos.) 



