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surface, but the bowl was slightly better preserved. It had an original 

 orange slip, a band of small red horizontal chevrons outside the lip 

 and two circular panels surrounded by a black background on the out- 

 side. The design inside these circles was gone. These vessels had 

 evidently been broken up by roots. Nearby, at a depth of 60 centi- 

 meters, another upright bowl was encountered. It was badly eroded 

 over its entire surface and crumbled to pieces when exposed. It seems 

 probable that the original nature and finish of the individual pieces 

 has more to do with their state of preservation than does their relative 

 age or depth. 



About 8 meters northeast of the mound or rise described above, 

 and only a short distance north of the remains of Edward's " casita ", 

 was a rough stone cairn formed by about a dozen large stone slabs 

 lying in rather orderly fashion. We commenced a trench at this point 

 but soon ran into innumerable great boulders, laid in no particular 

 sort of order. The trench yielded nothing but potsherds, fragments 

 of bulbous whistles, and a few mano and metate fragments. The 

 other mounds in this vicinity appeared to be similar to the one we 

 cross-trenched. Many of them were higher, but all had been so badly 

 pitted that further excavation seemed useless. 



Space is lacking to describe the potsherds from these two excava- 

 tions. Elaborate polychrome types were abundant, a number of Ulua 

 types such as rows of conventionalized heads and imitation textile and 

 basketry designs occurred ; several sherds of brown engraved ware 

 were noted ; and a number of large handles having monkey faces in 

 relief on the bend, from red-on-buff cooking vessels, closely approxi- 

 mate the Ulua Bold Geometric style. A few heavy, coarse sherds with 

 rough incisions suggest graters, and a number of ground-down disks 

 of polychrome pottery occur. The more localized Yojoa Animalistic 

 and Mayoid polychrome types are generally the same as those described 

 in the complete vessels and in the Aguacate ceramic material. Com- 

 plete figurines are lacking, but a brown ware fragment, from a depth 

 of 30 centimeters, depicts a woman's breasts supported by a bar or 

 pendant as in certain Maya stone sculptures. A few bulbous bird 

 and animal whistle fragments are present. Heavy volcanic stone 

 metates, both with and without tripod supports, were fairly numerous, 

 and both roller pestles and small rectangular manos occur. An ovoid 

 wedge or chisel, lo centimeters in length, of hard gray-green stone is 

 interesting. From a depth of 20 centimeters comes a flat slab of hard 

 gray stone with a sharp, ground-down edge. Numerous prismatic 

 flakes of obsidian, a few crude obsidian and flint side scrapers, and 

 some red ochre, were also found. Round stone balls were fairly 



