NO. I HONDURAS — STRONG, KIDDER, AND PAUL III 



ing broken but ornate, hollow, Mayoid effigies of fairly large size. 

 Figurines are varied. Solid and hollow figurines with square Mayoid 

 headdresses (like fig. 7, h, i, s; also see Gordon, 1898, pi. 9, /, n, v, 

 s) , as well as solid heads with pouting faces and simpler hair dresses, 

 all come from depths of i to 1.45 meters. This latter type of simple, 

 well modeled, solid figurine also occurs in polychrome deposits on 

 the Ulua. Several of the Los Naranjos figurines are extremely crude, 

 solid lumps of baked clay with grotesque, punctate faces or filleted 

 " cofifee-bean " eyes. These have a decided "Archaic " appearance but 

 occur in the same horizon with the polychrome pottery and ornate 

 figurines. In addition to the figurines this deposit yielded a consider- 

 able number of filleted or modeled fragments of baked clay. Many 

 of these are quite complex but their original form is uncertain. Ground 

 stone artifacts are fairly abundant, including flat ovoid lapstones ; both 

 flat and tripod rectangular metates (the majority with a broad grind- 

 ing groove) ; cylindrical roller pestles (including some that taper at 

 both ends) ; hammerstones ; one small rock mortar ; two small, sharp, 

 jadeite celts (i-i.io m deep) ; and one brown stone bead. Chipped 

 stone artifacts are simple but relatively abundant. Large and small, 

 fragmentary, prismatic flakes of obsidian occur. There are numbers 

 of crude obsidian flakes, evidently used as scrapers, and a few flakes 

 of other stone. At a depth of i.io meters we found the only definite 

 projectile point encountered, a planoconvex, obsidian dart point with 

 a slight, tapering stem. Even this brief summary indicates that these 

 small Lake Yojoa sites are far more prolific in nonceramic artifacts 

 than are sites on the Ulua or the Chamelecon Rivers. 



The Older Horizon at Los Naranjos 



Our main work at Lake Yojoa was terminated by the advent of 

 " Holy Week." It was then necessary to move on to Playa de los 

 Muertos on the Ulua, and then to Naco if we were to complete the 

 survey we had outlined. We had determined the general association 

 of polychrome wares at Lake Yojoa but had not found any marked 

 stratification of cultures, nor had we encountered the old type of Playa 

 de los Muertos ware (pi. 15, a, h) discovered in the vicinity of Los 

 Naranjos by Mr. Rittenhouse. Despite his statement that it had been 

 found here at depths of less than a meter, we had so far been unsuc- 

 cessful in locating any remains other than those of the polychrome 

 period. It was obviously necessary to go deeper and penetrate below 

 the sterile yellow clay stratum encountered at our Los Naranjos site. 



Therefore, in May, when the rest of the expedition went to Naco, 

 Mr. Paul returned to Jaral for this purpose. Efforts to locate the 



