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lines on the sides. It was at the head of the skeleton, the other at the feet. A 

 spear-head of red chalcedony and a few shards completed the contents of this 

 mound, which was evidently erected to some departed chieftain. It required too 

 much labor to have been expended on a single ordinary individual. In con- 

 struction it was similar to the mound examined near Los Angeles. None of the 

 mounds seen in Nicaragua had the facings of stone or cement that are so common 

 on teocallis of Yucatan, Chiapas, and more northern Mexico. 



The difference between the mounds which served as the foundation of houses 

 and the burial mounds of Costa Rica will be mentioned later. 



STONE IMAGES. 



On either side of the gateway to the old church enclosure at Los Angeles 

 was an image in basalt. 



No. 1, about five feet high, was a male sitting, with a sullen, cruel expression 

 of face ; the lips thick and everted. It had a head-dress representing the head 

 of some large animal, the face however not looking out of the mouth of the 

 animal, as in some described by Squier, but below its chin. 



No. 2, not quite so high as the other, seemed intended for a woman. It was 

 of rougher workmanship, and much defaced. On the head was a large irregular 

 mass shaped somewhat like a cocked hat. 



Lying near one of the houses was a large head of an image, the face look- 

 ing out from under what resembled a cow's head. These were all brought from 

 a neighboring wood. 



In the woods, on a hill side about one hundred yards inland from the mound, 

 were images 3 and 4. The whole mass of No. 3 was 59 inches high. The same 

 block of stone formed image and seat ; the latter continuing 18 inches below the 

 feet of the figure. This was a male, sitting, with his long arms hanging down by 

 the sides of the seat. From the shoulders to the elbows a space cut through 

 separated the arms from the body. The fingers, toes, genitals, and buttocks were 

 well carved. The head-dress resembled a tiger's head. 



No. 4, near No. 3, was a female, sitting, with a mass between the thighs, as 

 if to represent a child en delivrance. The breasts, &c., were well shown. The 

 head had been broken off. 



About fifty yards inland from the last was found No. 5, a portion of a rough 

 old image. This was close by the ruined site of a modern habitation. Near No. 

 5 was a well executed human head under the mask of an animal's head. It 

 probably belonged to No. 4. 



No. 6, at the foot of the mound, was a portion of a well carved figure of a 



