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are enormously large. Above is seen a cavity in the margin, in which perhaps the 
victims were made to place their heads at decapitation. The hollow posterior cav- 
ity of the font, used for the reception of the cut-off head, is twenty-one inches 
broad by twenty inches deep. Locality: Xata. (After a drawing by Dr. Berendt.) 
AGUNA. 
Situated some twenty miles northwest of Santa Lucia and owned by Dr. 
Guillermo Rodiguez of Guatemala. The whole place is covered by artificial mounds. 
About nine miles south of the main dwelling-house are seen, among other hills, 
three smaller ones made of soil and rough stones. These mounds, perhaps fifteen 
feet high and forty feet long, are placed so as to form a small courtyard. In this 
courtyard were found the sculptures here represented, viz.: 
Figs. 30 and 31. A stone sculptured as a head, with a posterior projection 
for insertion in a wall. The sculpture is represented both from the side and from 
the front. 
Figs. 52 and 33. <A similar stone, with a forced deadhead in front and sev- 
eral ornaments. In execution these heads do not compare with the sculptures of 
Pantaledn, being very much inferior, both in design and workmanship. Their size 
is about four feet long by two high. 
EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES. 
FROM EL PORTAL. 
Fig. 1. Sculptured tiger in low relief. The tongue is outstretched and on the 
same is sitting a bird. 
2. Head of male personage, seen from the side. 
Head of the same, seen from the front. 
4. Head of fictitious animal, front view. 
5. Head of an animal similar in size and shape to the above, but side view. 
6. Head of a fictitious animal, seen from the front. 
The same, side view. 
8. Fictitious animal or deadhead, remains of a font, front view. 
FROM SANTA RITA OR CARMEN. 
9. Sculptured deadhead of man, seen from the front. 
10. The same, side view. 
