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From the second grave were taken a bowl exactly similar to 

 that shown in figure 24, a, two flat dishes 12 inches in diameter 

 (fig. 24, e), and a small polished bone ring 1 inch in length, seemingly a 

 section from one of the larger long bones of some large animal. The 

 vessel g, 6 inches i'n diameter, was also fomid with this burial; it is 

 made of fine pottery, painted red, and possesses a curious upturned 

 spout, which bends inward toward the rim of the pot to such an 

 extent that it would be impossible either to drink or pour out the 

 contents therefrom. These curious pots, usually with the spout 

 parallel to the perpendicular axis of the vessel, are quite common 



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Fig. 24. — Bowls, vases, and dishes foimd in Moimd No. 6. 



among Maya pottery from tliis district; they were supposed to have 

 been used as chocolate pots, but drinking from them must have 

 been a feat of legerdemam. 



From the third grave came two bowls, both ahnost spherical, the 

 one 12 mches, the other 6 inches, in diameter (fig. 24, c). At the 

 point K, near the end of the mound G (fig. 22), three interments 

 were found, very close together, on the ground level; these had 

 evidently been contamed at one time in a small oval cist, built of 

 rough blocks of limestone, which had now completely caved in. With 

 the bones were found the vases shown in figure 24, 6,/, /;, of tho same 

 red-painted pottery as was found elsewhere in the mound. Six well- 

 made bone awls, or lance heads, each about 6 inches in length. 



