*^':iK"] ANTIQUITIES OF GUATEMALA 107 



The settlement of Panquip, or LasPacaA^as, beloug.s to the Pokonchi 

 territory, where Messrs Sapper and Dieseldorff also made excavations. 

 From this locality the Royal Museum possesses only a few tine obsid- 

 ian lance points, one of Hint, and a few pottery frajrment'^, among 

 them thin quadrangular tablets with perforations near the corners, the 

 meaning of which is not clear to me. 



There still remain some classes of antiquities which I have not yet 

 discussed, because the}- cover a wider range of territory and because 

 there is greater proba])ility that they were imported artich.'s of trade. 

 These are the vessels covered with hieroglyphs and delicate painting 

 and the green and gray enameled or glazed vessels. 



The Royal Museum possesses a few fragments of vessels with deli- 

 cate painting from this territory, and also from San Juan Chamelco. 

 Two types, at least, are to be distinguished among them, and it seems 

 to me that the same two types can also ))e recognized among f i-agments 

 from the ruins of Copan. 



As to the hieroglyphs, it is frequently impossibh* in a particular case 

 to say whether we have before us a mere ornament'or a hieroglyph, 

 although, perhaps, in most cases a definite symbolic meaning must 

 finally be ascribed to an ornament. Among the fragments of the 

 Sapper collection from San Juan Chamelco the two ornaments or 

 hieroglyphs shown in the cut, symmetrically repeated on a band 

 running around near the upper edge of the vessel, are plainly to 

 be seen. One (J, figure 23), is scratched on a vessel of dark coloi-. 

 The ornament and the two borders are painted in white. The 

 ornament e is painted in red on a light, yellowish-white vessel. 

 The former vessel appears to have no other decoration. Figures 

 were painted on the second one, but, unfortimately, some of them 

 are obliterated, and some are unrecognizable. I can find no anal- 

 ogy for these two ornaments among the familiar hieroglyphs of the 

 manuscripts. 



The existence of enameled vessels from Vera Paz is now also proved, 

 partly l)y isolated specimens of the Sarg collection and partly by 

 various fragments collected by Doctor Sapper in the ancient Indian 

 settlements visited by him. Some of these vessels are greenish, some 

 gray, and others, occasionally found in considerable quantities, are 

 light-red. These vessels are distinguished from the well-known ancient 

 American pottery by apparentlv having an actual glaze. As a rule 

 they are beautifully made vessels in animal or human form, or they 

 are face jars. From the Karwinski collection the Royal Musuem 

 possesses a fine piece of this kind, d^ representing the peche-xok). or 

 tlacaxolotl, the tzimin of the Maya nations, the ''tapir'\ Two others 

 came into possession of the Royal Museum with the Tide collection. 

 One represents a parrot with open jaws holding a human face, like as 



