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of most excellent workmanship, with very high, slender, cylindrical legs, and a thin 
plate. This specimen is richly ornamented with sculptured designs. On the upper 
side each end shows a band 5 cm. broad, with a small bird-design in the middle, 
the head extending from the edge, and guilloche patterns on the sides. The whole 
lower side of the body is nearly covered with designs, mostly geometrical, consisting 
of guilloche and meander patterns. A meander band divides its surface into two 
fields of which the larger is partly filled with a highly conventionalized bird-design, 
the smaller contains a conventionalized human (?) head on a long neck. The lower 
ends of the legs are adorned with geometrical designs. Length about 62 cm., breadth 
about 36 cm., height about 23 cm., thickness of the plate about 1.5 em. Found 
standing leaning to the left at a depth of 2 m. below the surface. 
Burial LI. 
This was a small pit, oval in section, about one meter in diameter. Contained 
at the depth of about 1.5 m. near the north side one bunched burial. Standing 
almost upright close to this we found : 
a. (Pl. IIT, Fig. 4.) Metate of nearly oval shape, slightly concave and with 
three short, nearly knoblike legs. Length 49 cm., breadth about 30 
em., height 9cm. Lying on the top of this were found four beads 
of greenstone : 
b. (fg. 4.) Bead of pale green bowenite, flattened cylindrical. 
Length 2 cm., breadth 1.8 cm., thickness 0.7 cm. 
: Fia. 4. Bead of 
c. Bead of pale green bowenite, flattened cylindrical, resem- pate green bowen- 
bling b. Measurements the same as of the above. (Cat. No. 2723.) ite. (Cat. No. 
d. (fig. 5.) Bead of pale green bowenite, cylindrical. Length 
2.5 cem., diameter 0.5 cm. 
é. Bead of dark green saussurite, cylindrical, resembling d. Length 2.4 em. 
Diameter 0.7 em. (Cat. No 2422.) 
Burial ELEY. 
Cireular pit with a diameter of about one meter. On the north side, and at the 
depth of 2-2.5 meters, were the remains of two skeletons. No object was found de- 
posited with them, but a few small potsherds were scattered in 
the soil. 
Burial IV. 
ENCn Saasea dro pale Pit nearly oval. Largest diameter 1.1m. Contained at the 
green bowenite. (Cat. depth of about 2 m. and close to the east side a bunched burial. 
Sie ae Here was found a rectangular, three-legged metate, resembling 
in general shape the specimen given on PI. VI, Fig. 1. The upper side was plain, 
