NO. 14 ARCHEOLOGY OF BAY ISLANDS, HONDURAS STRONG IO7 



in length and has two tiny perforations. It is brown on the outer 

 faces, green where the edges have crumbled away, and was probably 

 worn as a small pendant. 



GROUND STONE 



Although no cache of small stone carvings was found by us at this 

 site, four interesting green talc ornaments were recovered. They were 

 scattered in the deposit at depths of about i foot. Two of these 

 (pi. II, g, i) are very similar to carvings from the Dixon site on 

 Roatan Island (pi. ii, d-f), and one of them (pi. ii, i), with slight 

 variation of headdress, is almost identical with one from the Dixon 

 ofifertory vessel (pi. ii, /). The other (pi. ii, g) falls into the same 

 general class but is not so well modeled. In regard to material, tech- 

 nique, and perforations, these two pieces are identical with those 

 previously described from the Dixon site. The third carving is unique 

 (pi. 29, c) in size, shape, and design. Of dull apple-green talc, it is 

 6.5 cm in length by 3 cm in basic diameter. An animal with prominent 

 teeth, probably a highly conventionalized jaguar (although it most 

 resembles a " laughing " horse), is shown in relief. The artifact has 

 a longitudinal perforation i cm in diameter extending from end to 

 end. It is well worn and smooth and was recovered at a depth of 

 about I foot on the northern edge of the deposit. The fourth piece 

 referred to is of dull gray-green talc and suggests some sort of 

 mnemonic device (pi. 29, a). However, no such purpose has been 

 determined, and the designs seem to be too irregular in application to 

 make such an explanation feasible. A biconodont perforation marks 

 the top, and two tips made by three vertical notches on each side 

 mark the bottom. The back is unmarked except for the two incised 

 lines around the neck. It is 8 cm in length and was found near and 

 at practically the same depth as the third carving described above. 



A considerable number of beads of various types were recovered, 

 and these were also scattered at random throughout the area which 

 we dug. About half of these closely resemble beads from the Dixon 

 site. There are 14 round beads of diopside (the largest 2.2 cm in 

 diameter), which are identical with those from the Dixon site (see 

 pi. 14, /, g) , and of these 7 are very badly eroded. Only 14 green 

 talc beads were recovered ; 9 are cylindrical, 2 are similar but incised, 

 and 3 are small disk beads. Most of these are broken. One blank, 

 of gray-green talc, is cylindrical, 3.7 cm long, and has the beginning 

 of a small hole at each end. Half of the beads recovered are of crude 

 brown pottery, a type not hitherto noticed. The majority of these are 



