LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATE I. 



Sculpture No. 1. A Priest with crab-lilve head dress, sacrificing with a speaking obsidian knife. 

 Sculpture No. 2. A person adoring- an aged divinity; tlie speech-staves very prominent. 



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Sculpture No. 3. A worsliipper and tlie image of Death adoring a flaming deity, probably the sun. 



Sculpture No. 4. A wor.shipper adoring a deity, probably the Moon-goddess. The speech-staves 

 are prominent. 



PLATE III. 



Sculpture No. 5. A worshipper invoking the "God of Fertility." The symbols for speech and for 

 emotion are both present. 



Sculpture No. 6. The general aspect similar to that of Sculpture No. 5. The symbols for speech 

 and for emotion are quite similar. 



PLATE IV. 



Sculpture No. 7. A fragment, representing a deity enelesed in a shrine. The head-dress, resem- 

 bling a crab, and the winding speech-statt', arc all that remain of the priest. 



Sculpture No. 8. A portion of a slab representing a worshipper. The personal ornaments are 

 unique. 



Sculpture No. 9. A person of rank, seated on a throne, and holding a club-shaped sceptre. 



PLATE V. 



Sculpture No. 10. Two persons conversing, one standing erect, and the other in an inclined posi- 

 tion. Between the individuals are four hieroglyphics. 



Sculpture No. 1L This slab, so far as revealed, is a collection of hieroglyphic signs. 



Sculpture No. 12. A fragment bearing on its surface three hieroglyphics. 



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Sculpture No. 13. A sick man in the presence of Death. Circles resembling nnmcral signs are 

 exhibited. 



Sculpture No 14. A sick man visited liy a Medicine Man. The supposed numeral signs are present. 



Sculpture No. IT. The Bird of the Sun devouring a human victim. 



PLATE VII. 



Sculpture No 16. The Bird of the Sun devouring a human victim. 



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