No^U]^'^^^' CERRO DE LAS MESAS OFFERING DRUCKER 45 



Two small representative objects of materials found with bm-ial 

 materials in Mound 30 may be added to our list, although they do 

 not properly belong with the cache. One of these was a small carv- 

 ing, possibly made from half of a subspherical bead, representing a 

 monkey head (pi. 52, a, third row, middle). It has the characteristic 

 wide crest on the head and protruding mouth parts. The eyes are 

 small shallow drill pits. A transverse perforation runs through from 

 side to side near the top of the head and two pairs of intersecting 

 conical perforations connect sides and back just below the midpoint. 

 The height of the object is 1.8 cm., the maximum width is 1.8 cm., 

 and the thickness is 1.3 cm. 



The second little jade pendant from Mound 30 represents a highly 

 stylized cicada (pi. 52, a, third row, middle). It is of bright-green 

 jade with light-green mottling. In outline it is nearly elliptical with 

 slight notches at the sides of the head and the base of the wings. 

 Shallow saw cuts suggest the thorax of the insect, and two very shal- 

 low drill pits near the upper rounded end, the eyes. A transverse 

 biconical perforation pierces the object from side to side at about the 

 level of the eyes. This little piece is well polished. Its length is 

 3.1 cm., the maximum width is 1.6 cm., and the thickness at the upper 

 end is 1.0 cm. 



A little pebble of light-green jade was very slightly modified into a 

 form that vaguely suggests the head of a wood duck (pi. 49, h). A 

 slight projection at one end was bisected with a saw cut to suggest 

 the beak, and a few light cuts on the other end suggest the feathers. 

 A transverse biconical perforation runs through from side to side. 

 The length is 2.9 cm., the width 1.8 cm., and the thickness 1.2 cm. 



PLAQUES 



There are a number of objects among the materials from the cache 

 whose use is not known but which suggest by their more or less flat 

 form and laterally balanced perforations that they were intended 

 for suspension, perhaps hanging from necklaces like some of the 

 objects portrayed on the various stelae. These pieces are grouped 

 here as "plaques." 



The first of the plaques is a small trapezoidal object of very light 

 translucent green jade with a faint mottling of light green and white 

 (pi. 38, a, a', and fig. 3). The two upper corners are decorated with 

 highly simplified animal heads in profile, formed by a very few sawed 

 lines and with circular depressions made by a hollow drill to represent 

 the eyes. The sides and lower edge of the stone is marked off with a 

 border formed by a lightly sawed line. The central portion between 

 the heads is also decorated with an angular pattern of sawed lines. 



