JUNE 27, 1884.] 
6. An ornament or badge, shown in fig. 6, 
which Mr. Rogan, when he found it under the 
head of the skeleton in grave a, was inclined to 
Fie. 5. 
consider a crown. It is imperfect, a narrow 
strip across the middle and a portion of the tip 
being missing. As shown in the figure, it 
measures around the outer border nineteen 
inches and across the broad end three inches 
and a half. The six holes at the larger end, in 
which the remains of strings can be detected, 
indicate that it was, when in use, attached to 
some portion of the dress, or fastened on a staff. 
7. A fragment from the larger end of a 
piece similar to the preceding. Attached to 
this is a piece of cloth. 
In addition to the foregoing, there are a num- 
ber of small fragments, probably broken from 
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these plates ; but so far I have been unable to 
fit them to their proper places. 
An examination of what Mr. Rogan calls a 
skin shows beyond question that it is animal 
matter. The matting he speaks of appears to 
be made of split canes. 
Fig. 7. 
The shell represented in Mr. Holmes’s fig. 3, 
reproduced in our fig. 7, is the one obtained in 
grave g. The one shown in Mr. Holmes’s fig. 
4, reproduced in our fig. 8, is that found in 
grave f. 
I shall not attempt at present to speculate 
upon these singular specimens of art, further 
than to call attention to one or two facts which 
appear to bear upon their age and distribution. 
First, We notice the fact alluded to by Mr. 
Holmes, which is apparent to every one who 
inspects his accurately drawn figures, that, ‘‘ in 
all their leading features, the designs them- 
selves are suggestive of Mexican or Central- 
American work.’’ Yet a close inspection 
brings to light one or two features which are 
anomalies in Mexican or Central-American 
Fie. 8. 
designs; as, for example, in figs. 3 and 4, 
where the wings are represented as rising from 
the back of the shoulders,— a fact alluded to by 
Mr. Holmes. Although we can find numerous 
figures of winged individuals in Mexican de- 
