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more deeply, or on the ground level, painted pottery animals either 
within or immediately adjacent to a pottery urn. 
3. Mounds which constitute the solitary representatives of a class, 
and those of unknown or doubtful use. 
CHARACTERISTICS OF MOUND 1 
The most important of the mounds erected over buildings (class 1) 
was without doubt that marked 1 on the accompanying plan (figure 
4), as the walls of this building were covered externally with painted 
stucco, which, notwithstanding the dampness of the climate, was 
found to be in an excellent state of preservation. This mound was 
situated near the edge of the plateau, at a distance of 580 yards 
from the large central mound (7). Before excavations were com- 
menced the mound was found to be 290 feet in circumference, 80 
feet in length, 66 feet in breadth, and 14 feet in height. A tradition 
existed among some of the older employees on the estate of Santa 
Rita that when the brush was first cleared from this mound there stood 
on its summit a wall 4+ or 5 feet high and several yards long, which 
had been pulled down in order to obtain the squared stone of which 
it was built. No trace of this wall was seen when the outside of the 
mound was examined, but by digging into it, toward its east end, a wall 
was discovered at a depth of a few inches, which, on being cleared, was 
found to be a little over 4 feet long. Ata height of 4 feet 10 inches 
above the ground-level a triangular stone cornice projected, and below 
this the wall was entirely covered with painted stucco, the device on 
which will be described later. Above the cornice the wall was com- 
posed of roughly squared stones, and varied from 2 to 3 feet in height. 
It rested on a floor of smooth, hard, yellowish cement, which was con- 
tinuous with the painted stucco. Its south end was broken down, and 
its north end joined the north wall of the building covered by the 
mound. 
Unfortunately, when this wall was discovered there was no tracing 
paper to be had in the district, and I had to copy the design painted 
on the stucco with a very imperfect improvised substitute. After 
Thad traced the outline of about half the mural painting, some mis- 
chievous Indians came in the night and removed the whole of the 
stucco. This is especially to be regretted, as toward the broken end 
of the wall a number of hieroglyphics were massed together, reaching 
from the cornice to the floor, which were entirely lost. 
The north wall of the building was the only one entirely unbroken 
throughout its extent below the cornice. It measured 35 feet 8 inches 
in length and its center was pierced by a doorway 3 feet in width. 
The upper part of the mural decoration on this wall was in a remark- 
ably good state of preseryation, but, owing probably to dampness, 
