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Fig. 5. Head of another similar animal, but seen from the side. The up- 

 per surface of the skull has inscribed upon it two C's, a similar ornament often 

 being found in snakes. Size, 19 inches long by IH inches high. 



Figs. 6 and 7. Head of some fictitious animal, perhaps modeled after a 

 tiger. Fig. 6 represents it seen from the front. Size, 13f inches broad by 19 inches 

 high. Fig. 7 is the same seen from the side. Size, 25| inches, long by 19 inches 

 high. 



Fig. 8. Head of a fictitious aiiiuial. Behind is seen the remains of a hollow, 

 perhaps a font. Front view. Size, 13 inches broad by 8| inches high. 



SANTA RITA OR CARMEN. 



This place is situated between Santa Lucia Cotzamalguapa and Pantaleun. 

 So far only one sculpture is found in this place, represented in Figs. 9 and 10. The 

 lower part of the skull is wanting. Fig. 9 represents it seen from the front and 

 Fig. 10 from the side. This skull, as well as the heads from Pantaleon, have the 

 angle of the face very large. The sculpture is at present at Pantaleun. 



PANTALEuN. 



This place is situated one league southeast of San Lucia, and belongs at 

 present to Don Manuel Herrera. The sculptures found on this place are removed 

 from their original site, and now to be seen in a yard behind the main dwelling- 

 house. Originally, however, they were found on the ground between four small 

 mounds, enclosing between them a kind of courtyard, having the entrance on the 

 south side. The sculptures consist only of heads of male and female personages, 

 originally six in number, but one of them has been taken to Berlin, Germany, by 

 Dr. Bastian. I am, however, not aware of it having been described. The remain- 

 ing sculptures are all very well made, cut out of a dark basalt from Volcan de Fuego, 

 some thirty miles distant. The rocks, however, were most likely found on the 

 place, as rounded stones of similar nature are in some places abundant on the 

 ground. All the sculptures are furnished with a large posterior projection for 

 insertion in the wall. 



Figs. 11 and 12. Head of an old woman, the face with very deep 

 wrinkles all over. Remarkable in all these heads is the head-dress, which is just the 

 opposite of the head-dresses worn b}' the idols of Quirigua and Copan. Instead 

 of being enormouslj'' large, it is extremely small, and evidently used more as 



