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earth 4 inches in thickness, on removing which the following objects 

 were brought to light, lying on the layer immediately subjacent, 

 near the center of the mound: (a) A leaf -shaped spearhead of very 

 light yellow flint, 5 inches in length; (b) a leaf -shaped spearhead of 

 reddish flint, 5^ inches in length; (c) an eccentricaUy-shaped 

 flint object (fig. 19, a), 4i inches in breadth by 2f inches in 

 depth, of light grayish flint, very neatly and carefully chipped; 

 (d) a large, well-made flint arrowhead, deeply grooved on each side 

 of the base, 2^ inches in length, and of light grayish color (fig. 

 19, h) ; (e) the broken end of a roughly chipped flint hook or crescent 

 (fig. 19, c). With these flint objects were found a small red-stone 

 bead and a quantity of pieces of broken images, as arms, legs, faces, 

 hands, breastplates, etc., in rough pottery. Below the alluvial layer 

 the mound was composed of large blocks of limestone, held together 

 by mortar, giving it the consistency of masonry and rendering 

 digging in it very difficult. At a depth of 6 feet a small oblong 

 chamber was opened, built of rough blocks of limestone, about 8 



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Fig. 19.— Objects from Mound No. 4. 



feet by 3 feet, within which were found fragments of human bones, 

 the head pointing to the north. At both head and feet a few very 

 roughly chipped spearheads were found. At a depth of 10 feet 

 another small chamber, 4 feet in length by 2 feet in height and 2 

 feet in breadth, was opened, also composed of rough blocks of lime- 

 stone. Within this were four basin-shaped vessels; two, somewhat 

 larger than their feUows, were superimposed upon them (fig. 20). 

 These basins were made of rough pottery, colored yeUow, with a 

 broad red stripe round the rim. Each was pierced by a pair of 

 smaU round holes, 1 inch apart, repeated at equal intervals four times 

 round the circumference, about one-half inch from the margin. The 

 perforations in the upper vase corresponded exactly to those in the 

 lower when they were discovered, suggesting that they had been con- 

 nected by cords of henequen fiber, ti-ii, or some perishable material 

 which had disintegrated. It was considered certain that these vessels 

 would' contain a number of the small pottery figures which similar 

 vessels from neighboring mounds had yielded. On removing the 

 cover from the first one, however, it was found to contain nothing 



