32 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
greenstone, oval in section, edge curved. Length 13.2 em., breadth 5.8 em. Found 
at the depth of 0.9 m. 
38. (Fig. 56.) Ceremonial club of white quartz in the shape of an owl’s head 
with large orbits and ear-tufts. The nostrils are well indicated, but the eyes were 
omitted by the sculptor. Length 12 cm., breadth 8cm. Found 2 m. below the 
surface. 
After the work of excavating had been well started and the first burials laid 
bare for my own work with the trowel and tape-line, some of the men were put to 
work on an adjoining part of the burial-ground. The limited time and the diffi- 
culties caused by heavy rains only allowed me to record the finds from the small 
Fie. 55. Celt. (Cat. No. 2783.) 4. Fria. 56. Head of ceremonial club. (Cat. No. 2723.) 3. 
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portion of the burial-ground described above. Only partial attention could be paid 
to the excavations in the adjoining part. All the burials, however, here appeared to 
be of the same general character, but the burial-ground at this part being deeper, the 
fragments of the skeletons appeared in two layers of pits. In one spot not less than 
fourteen metates, turned upside down and most of them broken, were found almost 
in one heap in the greatest disorder and covering the fragments of several skeletons. 
The stone beads met with were only found singly or two to three together with a 
skeleton. 
During my first visit to Las Guacas I had observed amongst the heaps of broken 
metates at the burial-ground several large flat blocks of sandstone, which were partly 
hollowed out, and on which celts probably had been polished. At my return, how- 
ever, these stones had all disappeared. A number of the most characteristic objects 
unearthed on the above mentioned part of the burial-ground are described and 
figured below. 
