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those from Ceamay. There are some polished ones, with dark, thin 

 walls, ornamented with circles and bosses of rather elegant appearance, 

 from Petet, near Coban, There are also some with thick walls and a 

 yellowish-red coating bordered with broad white stripes, from San 

 Juan Chamelco. There are, besides, painted fragments with different 

 patterns in ])lack and red on a j^ellowish-red ground. 



Three-footed dishes, so-called cazuelas, with heads of animals as 

 feet, appear to have been much used, together with simple dishes, flat- 

 bottomed or slightly rounded. One wliole dish of this kind is in the 

 Sapper collection from the neighborhood of Coban, and there are also 

 broken-off feet from San Juan Chamelco and other places. A reddish- 

 yellow or dark-brown coating seems to have been preferred for the 

 vessels. The feet of vessels in the form of animal lieads partly recall 

 the tj^pes in the Strebel collection from Cerro Montoso and those from 

 Cholula. Among the shapes represented I mention the alligator, 

 coati(?), jaguar, monkey, and human face (« to e^ figure 16, which are 

 taken from the Sarg collection). 



I further mention larger juglike vessels. As in other regions, a face 

 was frequently placed on the necks of these. The Sapper collection 

 contains a ruder fragment of this kind from Campur, and a thinner- 

 walled one from San Juan Chamelco, which I have reproduced in f, 

 figure 16. The circular protuberances on the cheeks are noticeable 

 here. The lips were added separately, but are unfortunately broken 

 awa}^ It is not impossible that a beard may have been indicated, 

 similar to the one depicted in the vessel below {d, figure 23). The 

 whole face has a coating of light-red ocher. 



One must not confuse the head-shaped ends of incense-spoon handles, 

 which are also frequent, with the feet of vessels in the form of animal 

 heads. The former preferably show a reptile head (A, figure 16, from 

 Sacuyo in Doctor Sapper's collection), or the}^ have a human head with 

 empty eye sockets communicating with the hollow interior of the 

 handle {g^ figure 16, from Petet, near Coban, Sarg collection). Here, 

 too, appears a certain analogj' with the region of the Strebel col- 

 lection. I remark here that in the Yucatan collection of the Royal 

 Museum a similar head, with hollow eye sockets, is used to decorate the 

 front of a cylindric vessel. 



Many of the feet of vessels and, commonly, the hollow handles of 

 incense spoons, contain little clay balls, which give these articles the 

 character of rattles. A large number of such little clay balls were 

 collected by Doctor Sapper in the cave of Campur. 



The fragment from Coban (c, figure 17) evidently also belongs to an 

 incense vessel, which was not held in the hand, but was meant to stand. 

 The head, whose ornamental finish strongly recalls the style of the 

 Copan sculptures, is doubtless intended for an animal head. But what 

 kind of an animal it is meant to represent unfortunately can not be 



