NO. 14 ARCHEOLOGY OF BAY ISLANDS, HONDURAS STRONG 49 



of gneiss (pi. 16, fig. i, ;) ; a beautiful little celt of dark green 

 jade, or jadeite, with a very sharp edge (pi. 17, k) ; a bulletlike 

 pendant of gray steatite, and a handful of green talc and diopside 

 beads of disk, cylindrical, and round shapes (similar to pis. 14 and 

 17, a). Only one artifact of chipped stone was recovered, an oval 

 knife (8 cm long) of white stone fairly well retouched. 



Bird found a number of unworked rock crystals in the deposit, but 

 we found none. Shell artifacts were rather numerous. There were ii 

 disk shell beads (1.2 to .5 cm in diameter) ; 58 perforated Marqenelis 

 shells, each with a rough hole punched through the back ; two dozen 

 perforated snail shells {Cerithium muscarum Say) ; a dozen per- 

 forated "bleeding teeth" shells (Nerita versicolor Linne), and a 

 number of unperf orated snail shells. Two disks (3 cm in diameter) 

 of pink shell ; two small triangular pendants, each with a horizontal 

 hole through the tip; seven olive shell ornaments, each with one end 

 ground down and a hole through the back ; a ground-down cone shell ; 

 a thick, ovoid, shell disk with a hole through the center and a rounded 

 groove around the sides ; and two unworked clam shells," the only ones 

 found at the site, complete the list. We found two barbs from a sting 

 ray at the site. 



The most numerous animal remains were 65 canine teeth of the 

 raccoon, each perforated at the root end. In addition, there were 39 

 of these broken teeth evidently from the same necklace. A portion 

 of a bone tube 8.5 cm in length had been cut ofif a.nd rounded at one 

 end. The bone cannot be identified as to type. As previously 

 mentioned, two portions of the jaw, one ground-down tusk, and 

 several loose teeth of a domestic hog were found by Mr. Bird at this 

 site. They were on the surface and probably had no connection with 

 the site beyond the fact that a pig, gone wild, had used it as a shelter 

 and died here. Could it be proved that the bones were left by the 

 Indians, however, it would date their latest use of the place as after 

 the time of Cortez. Bird found two human mastoid bones, one human 

 lower jaw, and a fragment of a second human jaw ; we found a few 

 human teeth, including several markedly spatulate incisors, and two 

 small human skull fragments. All these fragmentary human remains 

 were scattered at random through the deposit. Possibly they were 

 once in urns, with the smaller offerings, but if so, earlier visitors at 



"The above shell identifications are those of Bird. It did not prove feasible 

 to have all Bird's molluscan material in the American Museum of Natural 

 History examined by experts. 



