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are enormously largo. Above is seen a cavity in the margin, in which perhaps the 

 victims were made to place their heads at decajyitation. Tlie hollow posterior cav- 

 ity of tlie font, used for tliu recei)tion of the ciit-ofr head, is twenty-one inches 

 broad by twenty inches deep. Locality: Xata. (After a drawing by Dr. Berendt.) 



AGUNA, 



Situated some twenty miles iKntliwcst of Smita Lucia and owned by Dr. 

 Guillermo Rodiguez of Guatemala. The whole place is covered by artificial mounds. 

 About nine miles south of the main dwelling-house are seen, among other hills, 

 three smaller ones made of soil and rough stones. These mounds, perhaps fifteen 

 feet high and forty feet long, are placed so as to form a small courtyard. In this 

 courtyard were found the sculptures here represented, viz.: 



Figs. 30 and 3L A stone sculptured as a head, with a posterior projection 

 for insertion in a wall. Tlie sculpture is represented both from the side and from 

 the front. 



Figs. 32 and 33. A similar stone, with a forced deadhead in front and sev- 

 eral ornaments. In execution these heads do not compare with the sculptures of 

 Pantak'un, being very much inferior, both in design and workmanshi|i. Their size 

 is about four feet long Ijy two high. 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES. 



FROM EL PORTAL. 



Fig. 1. Sculptured tiger in low relief. The tongue is outstretched and on the 

 same is sitting a bird. 



2. Head of male personage, seen from the side. 



3. Head of the same, seen from the front. 



4. Head of fictitious animal, front view. 



5. Head of an animal similar in size and shape to the above, but side view. 

 G. Head of a fictitious animal, seen from the front. 



7. The same, side view. 



8. Fictitious animal or deadhead, remains of a font, front view. 



FROM SANTA RITA OR CARMEN. 



0. Sculptured deadhead of man, seen f'ldin tlic fiout. 

 in. Tbe same, side view. 



