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MAYA INDIANS OF YUCATAN AND BRITISH HONDURAS 



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Fig. 65.— Torso, head, and headdress from Mound No. 20. 



ended holow in a floor of hard cement 12 inches thick. The greater 

 part of these moldings had been broken away, but portions were 

 stiU adherent to the wall and great quantities of fragments, 

 painted red and blue, were found immediately beneath the wall 

 from which they had been 



broken. The most im- /^ -v,:*-^'^^-'^*fi*?'^ _ \ 



portant of these were: (a) 

 Two human torsos, one 

 (the more elaborate) of 

 which is seen in figure 

 65, c. (b) Three human 

 heads, one of which is rep- 

 resented in figure 65, h, 

 in situ. Both heads and 

 torsos are life size, and 

 both are painted red and 

 blue throughout.^ (c) 

 TSvo headdresses, one of 

 wliich is seen in situ in 

 figure 65, a; the other is 

 almost precisely similar 

 in coloring and design, 

 (d) Fragments of elabo- 

 rately molded pillars, wliich had originally separated the figures on 

 the waU. A portion of one of these is sho\vn in figure 66. Tliis 

 design was repeated tlu-ee times upon the front of the pillar, the back 

 of wliich was flattened for attachment to the wall. Great quantities 

 of fragments of painted stucco, of aU shapes and sizes, were dug 

 out of the mound, but the human figures, with the piUars wliich sepa- 

 rated them, were the only objects the original 

 positions of which on the waU it was possible 

 to determine with certainty. Resting upon the 

 layer of hard cement in wliich the waU terminated 

 below, between 5 and 6 feet from the eastern end 

 and close to the wall itself, was found an adult 

 human skeleton, the bones of wliich were hud- 

 fUed together witliin a very small compass, in a 

 manner suggesting secondary burial. In remov- 

 ing these bones nearly all of them crumbled 

 to pieces. Tliroughout the whole mound were 

 found numerous potsherds, some of very fine pottery, colored and 

 polished; others tliick, rough, and undecorated. Fragments of fhnt 

 and obsidian, broken flint spearheads and scrapers, and broken 

 obsidian knives were also found. 



1 The photojjraphs of the torso and headdress were taken in England and those of the head in British 

 Honduras. Consequently they do not fit together as well as do the originals. 



70806°— 18— Bull. 64 8 



Fig. Tit). — Fragmont of pil- 

 lar found in Mound No. 

 20. 



