678 MOUNDS IN NORTHERN HONDURAS [ETH. ANN. 19 
MOUNDS CONTAINING POTTERY, IDOLS, AND ANIMAL 
EFFIGIES 
Mounds of the second class, namely, those containing, superficially, 
the fragments of two pottery idols, and more deeply or on the ground 
level a number of small painted pottery animals, either within or 
immediately around a pottery urn, next claim our attention. 
Three mounds of this kind were excavated at Santa Rita—2, 5, and 
6 on the plan. Mound 2 was situated nearly 500 yards east of the 
large central mound; it was 30 yards long, 25 yards wide, 96 yards 
in circumference, and 18 feet high at its highest part. The north- 
ern face of the mound sloped gently down from the summit to 

Fic. 6—Plan of mound 2, Santa Rita. 
A, B, Pillars. G, K, Walls. E, Place where birds’ bones were found. N, Circular chamber. D 
Place where idols were found. F, Place where cabbage-palm was found. C, Place where painteé 
animals were found. 
the base; the southern face was almost perpendicular. When the 
upper layer of the mound was removed it was found to consist of 
dark-brown loam with a few pieces of limestone embedded in it. At 
the bottom of this layer and resting on the one immediately beneath 
it were found fragments of two idols and a quantity of birds’ bones, 
together with the inferior maxilla of a small rodent. The head of one 
of these idols (supposed by Mr Diesseldorf to be the conventional 
portrait of Cuculean) is shown in figure 3, plate xxxm. The remarkable 
