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way, in the world, which were found among the ruins of Ocosingo, in the 
department of Quesaltenango, Guatemala, on the borders of Chi: ipas, and 
not remote from the more famous but hardly less imposing monunients 
of — I must not omit to say that, in common with similar stones, 
they were designated by the people of the region where they were found 
as chalchichuites. 
TR - Bibi first and most — of these » precisely four inches long by two and 
th i, asa about half a thickness. 1€ face is sculptured in low 
relief, hin the figure Ld a divinity seated, eross-legge d, on a kind of carved seat, with his left 
and his right raised to his breast, as i the act of giving benedic- 
tion. Around his loins s an ornamental girdle, and depending from his neck kae re reta on 
is breast is an oblong ober plate or charm lik to ha en worn by 
the Jewish e tae sts. The face is ir ofile, show- 
Fig. 52. 
an p- 
tures, Or haere are mee ed in the lobes of the 
ears, and the head is surmounted with the character- 
istic and elaborate plumed head-dress that we observe 
large bas-relief found by Mr. Stephens in an inner 
chamber of one of the ruined structures of Palenque 
(Fic. 50). At about one-third of ets "an of the 
carved chalchihuitl, measu oo from the top, it is 
drilled through from edge o edge, the an Pete a 
little less than eweadeauces an Pct 
drilling eod puse made from each side to the 
tre, where the o drillings run one into the pires 
with ofl slightly diminished bore. - e pi rpos e of this 
or other part of the e person; but the back edges of the 
e are sis pierced a as if to affo n mean 
oy e vio 
for enamel. It is a semi-disk in shape, four and a half 
neh 
rings and ot rnaments below the chin. It, too, is LT. om Ocosingo. Te 
s dge, longitud ur home et 
side. The back shows that it was sawn from a solid ! ock of the same material, both from 
above and below, u ntil the earner d each other ae half an inch, when the interme- 
diate core, if E may so call it, off. The swcrre of the saw is distinctly T. from 
hu ps hey ig as well as "e Me ge spin the striæ are nearly polished out. This was clearly 
i 8 there are no means by which to fasten it to robes of any kind, It 
m" 
e 
Ld 
pee ~~ served » a ati ote r breast-pla’ 
2.—This is ost interesting, atone a very irregul spee- 
Misc. Pix inches bán two-tenths long by and a half vieni wide at ‘its wide i: ort: The 
ack shows a compaet greenish stone, wit as he same evidences of havin dir gris sawn from a 
solid block to which I have alluded i in describing pier 51. The - - appear of a brilliant 
een — exhibiting 1 helmet or 
huge and neek NE tiniomibié to describe, and only to be understood by ins ein 
of dg lcm This, too, is pierced, like that last described, from edge to edge, near "ed upper 
end. 
FIG. 53, — This i my tively 11 fi lentical terial with Fic. 49, an irreg- 
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