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little cap on the vertex was pretty well demolished. The beard-like ar- 

 rangement on the chin may have been intended to represent a chin strap 

 as it passed up behind the ear-rings, and was apparently continuous with 

 the head-dress. 



This is one of the most striking of the faces, and in a general collec- 

 tion would suggest the patriarch of Western Asia. Its height was 21 

 inches. 



I'll;. ] -'.^Sculpture from Pantaleon, Guatemala. 



Fixed into the wall of the court, behind El Eey, was I^o. VI, shown in 

 Fig. 12. It was the roughest of the specimens, and without peculiar 

 features. The ear-rings were large, and on the cap a broken surface 

 showed where was probably a knot, as on No. IV. 



Lying in the court-yard was a rough representation of the head of a 

 wild-cat, and a skull somewhat similar to those in Habel's drawings 

 from Santa Lucia and others at Copan. 



These figures in simplicity and strength differ from all specimens of 

 ancient American sculpture we have seen pictured or described. They 

 stand as far apart from the grim statues of Nicaragua as from the fan- 

 tastic and hieroglyph-covered monoliths of Copan, and surely deserve 

 the careful consideration of American archaeologists. 



