GANN] PAINTING ON NORTH WALL 667 
lower blue, not unlike various colored ornaments made by the modern 
Maya from henequen fiber. The front of the headdress of figure 1 
is ornamented with the head and outstretched wings of an eagle; 
that of figure 2 with the head of a dragon, in which the lower jaw 
appears to be wanting; that of figure 3 also with the head of a 
dragon. Figure + has a square human face placed well above and in 
the front of the headdress. Figure 5 has a dragon’s head in front, 
immediately above the face. Figure 6 has a small dragon’s head in 
front of the headdress and a large one behind it. Figure 7 has in front, 
immediately above the face, a tiger’s head, and at the back a dragon’s 
head. In figure 8, owing to the obliteration of the stucco, the upper 
part of the headdress is wanting. The headdress of figure 9 has in 
its front the head of an animal resembling a raccoon. The individual 
himself is standing upon an animal (probably a pepisquinte) at full 
gallop. His left foot rests on the animal’s head, his right foot on its 
rump. 
Each figure is ornamented with large earrings, whose prevailing shape 
is oyal or circular, and which have pendants hanging from their centers. 
Figure 1 has projecting from the right ala'‘of the nose an ornament 
somewhat resembling in shape a right-angle triangle, the side oppo- 
site the right angle being divided into three steps. In figure 2 the 
nose ornament consists of two nearly circular objects attached to the 
tip of the nose, one in front of the other. Figure 4 is similarly deco- 
rated. Figure 5 has projecting from each ala of the nose ornaments 
similar to that in the right ala of the nose of figure 1. Figure 6 is 
decorated with a J-shape lip ornament. Attached to the right ala of 
the nose of figure 9 is a small object which resembles half a bow.. Of 
figure 10 only the outline has been preserved; it is, therefore, impossible 
eyen to conjecture what it was intended to represent. 
Immediately beneath figure 9 is a serpent’s head, decorated with an 
elaborately ornamented circular collar; the body is broken off short, 
and the small portion remaining has numerous curved spines on its 
dorsal surface. 
Immediately beneath figure 10 is depicted a highly conventional 
representation of a fish with a plume projecting from its mouth. 
The second half of the north wall, extending from the doorway 
to the west wall, was decorated with nine figures (plate xxx). Unfor- 
tunately the whole of the lower portion of this part of the wall had 
been destroyed by dampness, and a great part of three of the figures 
had also been obliterated. The first figure on this part of the wall has 
not been copied, as it was precisely similar in design to the correspond- 
ing figure on the opposite side of the door (shown in plate xx1x, figure 
10). Figure 1 appears to be holding in each extended hand a conical 
object as a gift or offering. In excavating a mound some eight miles 
from Santa Rita a number of broken clay figures were discovered, 
