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monument, but the drawing of the rest of the sculpture has been made from photo- 

 graphs only. A considerable number of photographs were taken, and the prints have 

 been very carefully compared one with the other. 



On the front of the monument (Plates LXXVI. and LXXVII.) is a large human figure 

 standing in the usual conventional position, with the hands raised to the breastplate. 

 The projecting ends of the ear-ornaments have been broken off. Above the head is a 

 large grotesque mask without a lower jaw. On either side is a plaited ribbon, edged 

 with round disks. The forehead of the mask, on which is a cross hatched mark, is 

 bound round with a cord, knotted in front, and forming on one side a loop, and on 

 the other a sort of flower-like expansion, to which is attached a grotesque-looking fish. 

 Only a small fragment of the lower part of the fish is now left, but it is restored in the 

 drawing from Catherwood's plates and from other examples on this same monument. 



This flower-and-fish ornament will be again found at Chichen Itza, and there is 

 also something like it at Palenque. Springing from the corner of the mask above 

 the loop is an ornament (coloured the same as the mask) which will be recognized 

 as part of the design figured on page 51, and it may possibly connect this mask with 

 the head of the double-headed dragon. Above the mask is a very curious ornament 

 now much broken ; it is restored on Plate LXXVII. from Catherwood's plates, and is 

 left uncoloured. 



The shoulders of the principal figure are covered with a cape made of the usual 

 oblong flattened plates: the breastplate is of the ordinary form and has grotesque 

 figures issuing from the serpents' mouths ; over the centre of the breastplate is an 

 inverted grotesque mask, coloured green in the plate. 



The bracelets, girdle, apron, garters, and sandals are similar to those already described 

 on other monuments. 



On either side of the great mask over the head of the principal figure is an alligator's 

 or dragon's head, turned towards the side of the monument, and the drawing on 

 Plate LXX1X. shows the looped or tasselled ornament which is attached to the end 

 of the dragon's snout, and the scroll ornament, decorated with a cross-marked oval, 

 which hangs from its chin. Above the dragon's head is a boss shaped into a grotesque 

 full face, from which springs a large double scroll. 



Amongst the feather-work on the upper part of the monument are three much- 

 mutilated figures — one in the centre seated cross-legged, and holding on to what is 

 either the remains of his breastplate or the body of one of the entwined snakes which 

 form one of the principal features in the decoration of this monument. The heads of 

 these snakes are very conventional in form, and can be seen (coloured green) both in 

 the front and back views on a line with the knees of the principal figures. The bodies 

 ascend the sides of the monument, Plates LXXVIII. & LXXIX., and apparently pass 

 over the upper part of the head-dresses of the principal figures, but the sculpture is 



