Smithsonian Report, 1939. — Spinden 



Plate 5 



1. Pottery Vessel, Recuay. Peru, Showing Sun god With 

 Jaguar Protectors. 



The decoration is by negative painting with wax, a process distributed from isrexico to Peru. 



2. The Court of the Jaguars at Copan, Honduras. 



In the center of the stairway is seen the sun god with Venus sjTnbols on each side of his face; at the sides 

 of the stairway are rampant jaguars. The event was an inferior conjunction of Venus and the sun in 

 the constellation of the Jaguar, March 27, A. D. 511, Gregorian calendar. 



