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turban head-dress with an inverted heart-shaped ornament on the side of it possibly 

 representing a tiger's ear. A small breastplate on the chest and a long bead necklace 

 hanging to the waist. In the right hand is the object which has been referred to 

 before, and which can be seen in the hands of some of the figures in Plates VIII., 

 XLVL, and XCII. It appears to be some folded or laminated substance bound 

 round the middle, to form a convenient handle, and is somewhat suggestive of the 

 Samoan orator's fly-flap, although evidently made out of a different material. 



No. 2 (a). A distinctly bearded face. The turban-like head-dress spotted as though 

 made of jagua-skin. The ornament over the ear probably a tiger's foot. 



The other ornaments are much the same as on No. 1, and a similar object is held in 

 the right hand, but with the folds or lamina? more divided. 



No. 3 (a) is a human figure with the head of a leaf-nosed bat. It is seated on the 

 ground, not on a glyph ; the head-dress is worn away, but above it is what was in all 

 probability the figure of a small serpent. 



No. 4(a). The figure is seated on the ground. The face has altogether disappeared, 

 but the large serpent mask head-dress is in fair preservation. The figure is furnished 

 with a snake's head in place of a human hand. 



No. 5 (a). The figure is seated on a glyph ; the body is human, but the head is that 

 of a jagua; from the top of the head-dress issues a complex scroll. 



No. 6 (a). Is a small human figure seated cross-legged on a glyph. The head-dress 

 is large and turban-shaped, and resting on the flat top of it is a serpent with a long 

 forked tongue issuing from its mouth. There is a glyph enclosed between the 

 upcurved body of the snake and the flat top of the head-dress. The large scar in front 

 of the nose of the figure is probably caused by the breaking away of the nose ornament 

 and the surface of the stone around it. The upper part of the figure is clothed in a 

 cape covered with a network of beads, and a similar bead-ornament envelopes the 

 crossed legs. 



The series of figures to the west is as follows : — 



No. 1 (b). The figure is seated on a glyph. The face without moustache ; otherwise 

 as far as the ornaments can be traced they are similar to those on 1 (a). 



No. 2 (b). The figure is seated on a glyph. No breastplate ; cape ornamented with 

 bead network. Turban head-dress; object held in the hand much broken. 



No. 3 (b). A large bird standing on the ground, the left wing partly extended. 



No. 4 [b). Figure seated on the ground, with human body and alligator's head. A 

 winged scroll rises from the back of the head. Apparently hanging from the back is 

 the upper part of a conventional serpent's head with a cross-barred ornament and 

 feathers attached to it. This ornament, as will be explained further on, is probably 

 the wing of the Serpent Bird. 



No. 5 {b). A figure seated on the ground, with a human body and animal's head; but 

 what animal it is meant to represent cannot yet be determined. 



No. 6 (b). A. small human figure seated on a glyph, in all respects similar to G (a). 



