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here, which penetrated deep into the very bowels of the earth," but 

 we either missed this place or did not recognize it. 



Bird has only a few notes and no photographs pertaining to this 

 site but made a large and interesting collection. His catalog indicates 

 that most of this material came from the crevices on the southwest 

 side of the hill, the other material, I presume, coming from the north 

 slope and the top. The ceramics from Marble Hill include Mono- 

 chrome, Polychrome I, and Polychrome H types. Monochrome ware, 

 mostly of the elaborately incised type, is the most abundant. Mr. 

 Boekelman found one small efhgy jar (ii cm high) of dull, polished 

 red ware (fig. 34, a) beneath a fallen rock slab. The only other 

 complete vessel is a very crude, unpolished red bowl with a flat bottom 

 and a slightly flaring rim. There are numerous sherds of the elabor- 

 ately incised monochrome type from open bowls, vases, or jars with 

 an annular base, and round pots with constricted orifices and slightly 



Fig. 34. — Monochrome vessels and marble bowl : a. Marble Hill Fort, Bonacca ; 

 b, Big Bight cave, Utila ; c. Plan Grande, Bonacca. 



flaring rims. Hollow cylindrical and conical feet which rattle, hemi- 

 spherical feet with rattles, and solid, thin, rectangular feet (like fig. 18) 

 of varying heights are present. The broken-off lugs include vertical, 

 centrally constricted types; one death's head (similar to fig. 25, e) ; 

 one grotesque animal with upturned snout ; a bird's head ; several 

 manatee heads with the concentric circle design on each side (similar 

 to pi. 18, fig. 2, a, b) ; and one crude turtle or alligator in relief. 



Polychrome I ware is represented by one typical bodysherd (4 mm 

 thick), which has an orange slip and part of a plumed serpent design 

 in black and red-purple. Four lugs suggest that combination between 

 Polychrome I and the elaborately incised monochrome types which 

 occurred at site i, Indian Hill. These include two polished, brown, 

 delicately incised sherds with applique rider lugs, both of thin pottery ; 

 and two somewhat aberrant lugs, with coarse incisions, suggesting 

 the iguana head type. 



See The Washington Herald, Sunday, Aug. 10, 1930. 



