ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN NICARAGUA. 



SANTA HELENA POTTERY. 



Of the pottery obtained at Santa Helena the largest pieces are the flat burial 

 jars, which were usually found over the skulls. They are about twenty-one 

 inches in diameter and nine in depth ; generally unpainted, but in some instances 

 coated with paint of red earth, and polished, probably as at the present day, by 

 rubbing with wet sticks or stones. These large jars usually have rims, and are 

 tolerably w r ell burned ; on one or more sides are raised figures, in most instances 

 the heads of monsters. Indeed, the representations on the Santa Helena pottery 

 are generally of monsters or caricatures. 



Fig. 113. 



No. 28,907. 



No. 28,678. 



No, 28,636. 



No. 28,924. No. 28,905. 



Large flat urns and fragments, Santa Helena. 



No. 28,908. 



