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G. 65 (full siz 133 tc th 1] "1 ho 6 ¢ Ly -" ae D | 1 3.6 
Piast the island of Pat adn Lake Nicaragu 
FiG.66 is of still another and harder M d of green stone, from a mound near Natchez, 
iik 64. 
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7 A lf, 
Eng 1st ylinder from Yucatan. 
Hatchet of green stone 
from Costa Rica. 
and appears to be a strange combination of the head of a siren of o of the 
frog, with Sh human body. Itis also pierced laterally, like esl already described, pods 
or suspension 
I do not jii FrGs. 63, 64, 65, and 66 as specimens of the chalchihuitl, 
but as showing the regard paid to green stones generally. It is one that 
pervades both continents and many nations, from the advanced Chinese, 
Fig. 68. 
Carved green stone found near Natchez. 
Sculptured frog, Nicaragua. 
to whom the green jade is sacred, to the savage dwellers on the banks 
of the Orinoco, among whom Humboldt found cylinders of hard green 
stones, the most highly prized objects of the several tribes, and some of 
which it must have required a lifetime to work into shape. 
