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in southeast Guatemala lij^hter millstones with smooth hand rollers 

 shorter than the breadth of the millstone and held in the middle (man- 

 ufacturing center at Jilotopeque). The first form of hand rollers with 

 a circular section (in many cases becoming nearly square or verv 

 much flattened on one side) is also the customary form in the plateau 

 of Mexico. It is represented in the Guatemalan collection of the Royal 

 Museum by a fragment of a hand roller from the ruins of Q'umarcaah- 

 Utatlan, the ancient Quiche (capital. A hand roller which Doctor 

 Sapper has sent from the ruins of Bolonchac in Chiapas — that is, from 

 the Tzental territory — shows the smooth, shorter form. It is 25 cm. 

 long by y cm. broad and 1^ cm. in its greatest thickness (see c\ figure 

 15). A similar but less regular form is shown in a hand roller of the 

 Sapper collection from Panquip, or Las Pacayas, a region which 

 belongs to the Pokonchi territor3\ But, besides these, there occurs in 

 the ancient settlements of Vera Paz a remarkable form of long hand 

 crusher, flattened on two sides almost like a board, with thick knob- 

 like ends which serve as handles and must have extended be3"ond the 

 sides of the millstone (see the fragment d, figure 15). Such crushers 

 are in the Sapper collection from Campur and from the neighbor- 

 hood of Coban. In one remarkable piece in the Sarg collection fi-om 

 Cebaczoos {e, figure 15) these ends are even developed into a sort of 

 handle. I must remark, however, that this flat boardlike form, which 

 differs in a very conspicuous way from the cylindric or (juadrangular 

 forms of the Mexican plateau and the highlands of (xuatemala, is also 

 found in a specimen of the Strebel collection, which is said to have 

 come from the neighborhood of Misantla in the State of Vera Cruz. 

 Several other hand rollers of the Sapper collection which come from 

 Pilon de Azucar, hence from the Misantla region, show the origin of 

 this form — namely, that the flattened side is cut out, as it were, of 

 the original cylindric tool, the ends remaining thick and knobby. 



Among the coarser pottery, I will next mention two pieces, one of 

 which came from San Juan Chamelco, the other from the locality of 

 Santa Cruz, which is soon to be discussed in detail. These specimens 

 recall in a certain way the shoe vessels, as they, too, are shaped (see 

 figure 15) suitabl}" to be pushed into the ground. On the whole, they 

 resemble the neck of a jug,'' the mouth of whi(rh has been closed and 

 forms the bottom of the vessel. The Sarg collection contains an 

 actual small shoe vessel. It is said to have come from C'oban. Hut 

 this vessel is so out of place and reminds one so much of the types 

 peculiar to Central America (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Chiriqui) that 

 I am inclined to think it was accidentally brought licrc. but I will 

 await further discoveries before deciding. 



In the Sapper collection there are fragments of ruder vessels from 

 the neighborhood of Coban, with thick, wavy, indented rims. Some 

 are likewise embossed with decorations and have grooved circles, like 



