68 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 92 



Besides the small artifacts of polished stone from the central offer- 

 tory vess.el, fragmentary metates, manos, celts, hammerstones, and 

 one ornate club or mace head were found in the larger deposit. Only 

 one complete metate was found here (pi. 7, fig. 3) ; it consisted of a 

 smooth-surfaced but curved granite slab, 35 cm long, 28 cm wide, 

 and 7.5 cm in thickness. The grinding face had been worn smooth, 

 but it was otherwise unworked. A cylindrical roller pestle (31 cm 

 long) of the same material was found nearby (pi. 7, fig. 3). A corner 

 fragment of another polished granite metate with a squared leg was 

 also noted. Owing to difficulties of transport, these were not carried 

 away. Near the central ofl^ering was the end portion of a rectangular 

 gray lava metate (pi. 6, fig. i ; fig. 14, e), which in its original con- 

 dition probably had three legs. Two other manos were recovered, 

 one (fig. 14, b) a cylindrical, well-worked piece of gray volcanic 

 rock 18.5 cm in length, the other a subrectangular piece of polished 

 granite 15 cm in length with squared ends that had been used for 

 hammering (fig. 14, c). A small, rounded cube of granite from this 

 site has all four sides deeply pitted apparently from use as a hammer- 

 stone (fig. 14, d). 



Six complete and three broken celts of polished stone were re- 

 covered. The largest of these is of quartz diorite and is 17 cm long. 

 Another celt is similar but smaller (pi. 16, fig. i, a, h). Both these 

 pieces are highly polished and excellently shaped, and the sharp 

 blades of both show evidence of considerable use as chopping tools. 

 Three smaller celts of dacite are shorter and less gracefully shaped. 

 Two of these are shown (pi. 16, fig. i, c, d). The larger was placed 

 just over the lip of the central ofifertory vessel (pi. 6, fig. i, and pi. 16, 

 fig. I, c). The cutting edges of all three are much chipped from 

 extensive usage. A small celt of andesite has a very smooth, sharp 

 edge but has been split or ground down along one side of the long 

 axis. A very small celt (pi. 16, fig. i, /) of quartz diorite is well 

 polished but very thick (1.3 cm in thickness) for its length (3.2 cm). 

 Two small broken celts are of diopside, one being of the short, thick 

 type, whereas the other (pi. 16, fig. i, e), which is black in color and 

 excellently polished, is very thin (i cm in thickness). Both of these 

 blade fragments have a sharp, smooth cutting edge. If we consider 

 all nine polished celts or celt fragments from this site (pi. 16, fig. i, 

 a-f), both the general excellence of workmanship and the extreme 

 variation in size are noteworthy. The fact that the large and medium- 

 sized blades show signs of considerable usage, whereas the smaller 

 ones do not, probably indicates that the latter had other than utilitarian 

 value. 



