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II, n), the Other is similar hut has a distorted mouth suggesting the 

 bird bill extension which Lothrop has shown to be characteristic of 

 certain Chorotegan statues. The most common type of jade figurine, 

 however, seems to be a small, full-length figure with folded arms. 

 These are rather crude in execution. Jade beads, ear spools (similar 

 in type to pi. i/, /;), and "buttons " (similar to pi. 12, (/, g) were 

 found. Elaborate shell carvings, disks, and beads are common. An 

 interesting find was a mirror of iron pyrites. A small celt with an 

 asymetrically curved blade, and a long granite celt with inscriptions 

 carved on the blade are figured, as is also an ovoid chipped knife of 

 honey-colored flint with two notches at one end. From Maya burial 

 mounds and similar sites that were opened by Gann in northern 

 British Honduras come a number of artifact types. One pair of 

 copper tweezers (copper bells are mentioned elsewhere, 1927, at a 

 late site in the same region), a disk of iron pyrites, small jadeite 

 masks with hollow backs (one of these, of limestone, has the " bird 

 bill " type of mouth), green stone beads, and ear spools (like pi. 17, h) 

 occur. A green stone chisel and a celt of the same material with 

 inscriptions ; round metates with three legs ; long rectangular metates 

 with and without animal heads; and long rectangular mullers and 

 hammerstones are listed. A beautiful soapstone lamp, believed to be 

 post-Caucasian, is unique. Chipped artifacts include slender oval 

 knives, long stemmed spear heads, flint arrow points with stems, a 

 chipped flint celt, obsidian flake knives, scrapers, and large numbers 

 of flint eccentrics. Circular shell disks and shell beads also occur. 

 Inlaid teeth are common. 



In the chultunes of Labna, in Yucatan, E. H. Thompson obtained 

 an object of iron pyrites, a stone collar, crude stone heads, four-legged 

 metates, roller pestles, ovoid and grooved bark beaters, stone balls, 

 jadeite and other stone beads (some of the latter painted green), 

 knives of obsidian and flint (some similar to pi. 16, fig. 2), both side 

 and end scrapers of flint, an engraved bone ring, an engraved shell 

 disk, a lip plug of shell (type?), and other shell ornaments. From the 

 caves of Loltun, in the heart of the northern Maya area, the same 

 excavator obtained a considerable amount of material. The following 

 artifact types are mentioned or illustrated: simple carved pendants 

 of stone, clay and shell; jade, stone, iron pyrites, and shell beads; 

 elaborately carved disks and " buttons " of shell ; cut and perforated 

 shell "danglers" (pi. 15, c) ; roller pestles; hammerstones; round 

 stones ; a broken celt ; a small perforated stone ; bone awls and needles ; 

 broken chipped " spear " points; ovoid chipped knife blades; obsidian 



