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oil fragments from Copan." Thei'c is, further, a vessel now in the Uni- 

 versity Museum in Philadei]3hia said to have come from the region of 

 Huehuetenango, which, I helieve, I saw at the exposition in Madrid, 

 the hieroglyphs of which Professor Brinton has reproduced. The}' 

 are actually the same characters which we see on the stelae of Copan, 

 executed in very curious and, in places, rather carelesslj^ drawn lines — 

 namely, the katun sign in the same two moditications which occur, 

 for instance, on Stela C of Copan, and among them are also katun 

 numerals and a row of other hieroglyphs. In /», figure 26, I give the 

 tirst two signs on the right side of this vessel, as I copied them two 

 3'ears ago in Madrid, and beside them the corresponding hieroglyphs 

 of Stela A of Copan. Doubtless we are here concerned with a piece 



B C D 



Fig. 26. Symbolic figures from Guatemalan pottery. 



which came, either through trade or as a present, from the region of 

 the Chols or Chortis in the western highlands, whose inhabitants were 

 familiar with the art of writing. Finally, I will mention that one of 

 the remarkable stone 3'okes — a simple, undecorated one — that came 

 into possession of the RoyalfMuseum from the collection of Professor 

 von Seebach, is said to have come originally from Quiche or Cakchiquel 

 territory, namely, from Solola. This would be remarkable, for the 

 reason that most of the regions where these inexplicable articles have 

 been found are on the Atlantic slope, in the present States of Vera 

 Cruz and Tabasco. 



Wedged in between the Quiche and theChorti tribes, separating the 

 Pokomams from the kindred Pokonchis, there is found in the valley of 



"See Brinton, A Primer of JIayan Hieroglyphs, 1894, p. 107, fig. (53. 



