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Museum when he was in Berlin. The second was given to Consul- 

 General Sarg in Guatemala some 3'ears ago by Doctor Sapper. The 

 third was unfortunately lost on its way to Guatemala. 



Of the plainer vessels some are cup-shaped, some are jar-shaped, while 

 some of them have handles, and others have not. The size, too, varies 

 greatly. But they had all been covered, it seems, with a shallow bowl, 



Fig. 22. Pottery vessels from Guatemala. 



or had simple disklike covers (see J, figure 22). The vessel «, figure 

 22, is made of light-gray clay and seems to have been without a col- 

 ored coating. Various others are not only carefully smoothed, but 

 have a coating of yellowish-red or brown. A small vessel in the shape 

 of a bird, c, was likewise found among them, but I am not informed 

 whether it, too, had a cover and whether its contents were the same 

 as those named above. 



The middle mound, B, and the northern mound, C, were less rich 



