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structures are conspicuous, which no doubt at one time carried small 

 temples upon their summits, some remains of wliich are still to be 

 seen. At the base of 

 these pyramids stand 

 three small plain stelae, 

 quite unornamented. 

 Upon the summit of one 

 of these mounds the 

 eccentrically shaped im- 

 plements shown in figures 

 40 and 44 were found. Of 

 these, figure 40, a,!), and 

 figure 44, m, n, o, p, arc 

 of obsidian, while the rest 

 are of fhnt. Sixty-four of 

 these objects were found 

 in all, at depths varying 

 from one or two inches 

 to a, foot beneath the sur- 

 face; all were within an 

 area of about 2 square 

 yards. Some of the ob- 

 jects, especially the obsid- 

 ians, were chipped out 

 with great care and ac- 

 curacy; others were 

 merely fhnt flakes with a 

 few shallow indentations chipped in their sides. On the south side 

 of the largest of the pyramids stood a large sculptured stela, the upper 

 part of wliich had been broken off and lay close to 

 the lower part, which was still embedded in cement. 

 The sculptured part of tliis stela measured 10 feet 

 2 inches in length by 4 feet 3 inches in breadth, 

 and about 16 inches in 

 thickness. The sculpture, 

 which is in low relief, rep- 

 resents a captive, or sacri- 

 ficial victim, prone on liis 

 face- and knees, while above 

 him rises the figure of the 

 priest or warrior, with elab- 

 orately decorated feather 

 headdress, holding in his 

 extended right hand a small 

 figure of the manikin god. The hmestone from which the stela is 

 cut has been very much defaced by the weather, and the finer 



Eccentrically shaped implements foiuid at summit of 

 mound. 



Fig. 41.— Flint ob- 

 ject found at base 

 of stela. 



Fig. 42.— Flint object found at base of 

 stela. 



