20 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
the lower ends. Length 55 em., breadth 37.5 em., height 14 em. Found standing 
2.2 m. below the surface at the eastern end of the grave. 
e. Plain metate with three cylindrical legs. Resembles Pl. I, Fig. 3. Length 
42 cm., breadth 27 ecm., height 10 em. Found standing 2.4 m. below the surface, 
near the southern end and close to the two skeletons. 
Fia. 12. Pestle of clay. (Cat. No. 2725.) 3. Fic. 13. Figurine. (Cat. No. 2793.) 4, 
f. (Fig. 12.) Pestle of red clay with an animal head at the top. Length 11.5 
cm., diameter at the base 4.5 em. Found 1.8 m. below the surface close to the 
burial at the northern end. 
Close to this object and at the same depth there was found : 
g. (Fig. 13.) A small human figure with large grotesque head, sitting on a 
small, rectangular, four-legged seat and holding a child on its knees. The figure 
wears a hat with linear, incised ornamentation. Height of figure 8 em. ‘The seat 
is adorned with a protruding animal head at each end. Length 11 cm., height 2.5 cm. 
Burial IX. 
Pit nearly circular, diameter about 1 m., containing one bunched burial close to 
the southern wall at the depth of about 1.8 m. Close to the skeleton in the middle 
of the pit there was found lying on its back: 
a. A rectangular metate, plain, with three short, cylindrical legs. Resembles 
Pl. III, Fig. 3. Length 45 cm., breadth 30 cm., height 8 cm. Left at Las Guacas 
Near this metate, on the northern side, we found the following smaller artefacts : 
b. (Fig. 14.) Ocarina, or whistle of clay, painted black, with the head of a bat 
in relief at the base of the mouth-piece. Through impressions with some tool 
(roulette?) the surface of the back has been covered with a pitted ornamentation. 
