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made one peculiar error, for a high area that presumably was meant 

 to represent the ball of the foot is immediately adjacent to the heel 

 and a depression was carved out, for what should be the instep, 

 between the toes and the raised area. The length of the object is 

 4.6 cm., width 2.0 cm., thickness (to the edge of the break) 0.9 cm. 



A few pieces in the collection appear to have been intended to 

 represent animal forms. One interesting specimen is made of ser- 

 pentine in the form of a small fish (pi. 37, a, h, a', h'). The eyes are 

 formed by moderately deep circles cut with a hollow drill. Sawed 

 lines at the edges of the mouth and around the gills give the object a 

 more realistic appearance although actually it is highly styUzed. It 

 is drilled from end to end, that is, from mouth to tail, by means of 

 two tubular drill holes which intersected just over 6 cm. from the 

 mouth, or roughly two-thirds of the way back. These holes are 

 about 1 cm. in diameter and have a very slight taper toward the base, 

 presumably due to added wear during the drilling process at the upper 

 part of each shaft. The holes almost fail to meet, having an overlap 

 of about half a centimeter. Subsequently the object was sawed in 

 half longitudinally. Whether this was done because the driU holes 

 did not meet properly cannot be determined. The object is 9.1 cm. 

 long and 4.7 cm. in maximum width. The original thickness prior 

 to sawing was apparently a little under 2 cm. 



A small piece of pale-green jade was made by cutting what must 

 have been a fairly good-sized cylindrical bead in half longitudinally 

 (pi. 37, e, e'). The remaining piece is slightly less than a half cylinder 

 in cross section. The lower end was broken off and repolished. A 

 few shallow saw marks outline slanting elliptical eyes, the line across 

 the muzzle, and what seems to be an indication of nostrils at the lower 

 broken end. The top two biconical perforations, one on the face 

 side, provide means of suspension and are connected by a sawed 

 groove. The general effect is that of an animal head, but it is im- 

 possible to try to guess the species represented. The present length 

 of the object is 5.1 cm., the width is 1.8 cm., and the thickness 0.8 cm. 



A small buff-colored pebble, probably of serpentine, was slightly 

 modified into the form of an animal head, possibly that of a dog 

 (pi. 49, h). Shallow drilled pits indicate the eyes. A transverse 

 biconical perforation runs from side to side at the base of the ears 

 and another perforation goes through the lower lip and into the 

 saw cut that represents the mouth. The length is 5.4 cm. 



A small carving representing a fairly reaUstic turtle, made, as I 

 recall, of basalt or possibly diorite, and painted red, was found in the 

 offering, but I did not find it with the collection in the Museo Nacional, 

 and by some strange oversight no pictures of it seem to have been 

 made in 1941. 



