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to the archaic ware of the \ alley of Mexico. Burnt-clay heads from 

 the Huaxtec region distinctly resemble archaic heads from the Valley 

 of Mexico, two of which, from San Juan Teotihuacan, are here 

 figured (fig. 93). 



A flat stone slab (fig. 94) from Cerro de Cebadilla in the Panuco 

 region, now in the U. S. National ^luseum, was part of the facing of 

 one of these cuves, or possibly one of the bounding stones of a ball 

 court used by the Huaxtecs, and recalls prehistoric Porto Rican 

 remains called jucgos de bola. The stone idols from the Huaxtec 



Fig. 97. — Stone Idol, Jopoy, Tamaulipas, U. S. National 

 Museum. Photograph by De Lancey Gill. 



region are characteristic, as seen in the hitherto undescribed speci- 

 mens (figs. 95, 96, 97). The representation of a conical hat found 

 on one specimen (fig. 98) would seem to indicate the same god as 

 that figured and identified by Sahagun as Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed 

 Serpent. The art shown by figure 100 recalls that on stone collars 

 and three-pointed stones, but the enigmatical objects from Haiti and 

 Porto Rico are not found in North. Central, or South America. 

 Possibly the stone collars of the Antilles may be idols embodying the 

 insular conception of a being corresponding to the Bird Snake 

 Dragon of the Mayas. 



