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CERTAIN ANTIQUITIES OF EASTERN MEXICO [eth. axn. 25 



the most instructive are shown in plate cxxii and figure 66. Of bowls 

 in this collection in form of death's heads, that on this plate (d) is espe- 

 cially fine. })iit there arc many others which merit notice. (Plate 



cxii, t\ and figure 65.) 



It is probable that the major- 

 ity of clay objects in the Dehesa 

 collection came from near Cem- 

 poalan, and hence illustrate the 

 same early culture." 



.Some of the more striking 

 forms of pottery in Sra Estef- 

 ania's collection from Otates are 

 figured in plates cxxv and 

 cxxvi. On plate cxxiv, a, is 

 represented a figure with well- 

 made head and bodj', but no 

 lower limbs; this is undoubtedly 

 Totonac. The object has a nose 

 ornament, the shape of which 

 recalls that of the stone image 

 from Xico Viejo, already de- 

 scribed. 



One of the most instructive 

 figures on the Otates potterv is 

 that of a monkey apparent on the 

 interior of a bowl (pi. cxxv. e). 

 Another important decoration is 

 found on the outside of a bowl 

 (/'), where a death's-head sim- 

 ilar to that found in the codices 

 appears. The ornamentation of 

 the majority of flat bowls from 

 Otates is as a rule on the exte- 

 rior, and consists of spiral 

 figures, as shown on plate cxxv. 

 Other clay objects from the 

 neighborhood of Jalapa, as those 

 on plate cxxvi, are a classic pitcher («), several amphores (c, d), clay 

 heads (/, c/, h), and food bowls with legs {h, e). One of these (0 is 

 a clay image or efiigy, duplicated also in I'. The two figures /. m, 

 are clay ladles. 



<i It is to be regretted that the author has not been able to determine the localities where many of 

 the specimens of the Dehesa collection were found; still it is not difficult to distinguish objects of 

 Nahuatl from those of Totonac origin. 



