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The sketches of three vessels, which I reproduce below, came to me 

 through the kindness of Mr Dieseldortf from the al)ove-mentioned 

 Pipil territory on the Rio Motagua. They come from the little place 

 Rio Hondo, lying on the Motagua opposite the mouth of the Copan 

 river, and belong to the collection of Mr B. Castaneda in Zacapa. The 

 first vessel (c, figure 26) has a height of 15.3 cm. and a diameter at the 

 bottom of 10.5 cm. and at the mouth of 16 cm., and the thickness of 

 the walls is 1 nmi. The second vessel (/, figure 27) is 17.2 cm. high, 

 13.5 cm. in diameter at the mouth, and the thickness of its walls is 

 5 mm. The figure and the hieroglvph tablet are repeated three times 



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Fig. 27. Glyphs from Mnya codices and design on Guatemalan vessel. 



on the circumference of the vessel, but the drawing is badly injured l)v 

 fire. The third vessel (a, |igure 28) is 22.6 cm. high, the diameter 

 measures at the bottom 12.7 cm., at the mouth 15.8 cm., and the walls 

 are 6 mm. thick. 



The first of these three vessels is of pure Maya character. The 

 figures, as well as the hieroglyphs, might have been copied directly 

 from a Maya manuscript. The second is also unmistakably of Maya 

 character, though the position of the figure is decidedly stifi'er. The 

 third, however, has an especial character. The models of its figur(\s can 

 only be found in Mexican or kindred manuscripts (Mixtec and Zapotec), 

 and what hieroglyphs there are difi'er in every way from the familiar 

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