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GUATEMALA. 
the dress-swords of Alvarado and Cortez, and strange 
stirrups, of wrought iron of great size and weight, that 
the Conquistadores had brought 
from Spain. 1 In the cases were 
grotesque incense-burners that my 
friend E. Rockstroh had brought 
from the country of the Lacan- 
dones; idols from various places, 
a lava mask from Copan (figured 
on page 200), figurines in terra¬ 
cotta with tails and tigre-heads, 
stone figures with turbans, — all 
on a subsequent morning made Spanish stirrup, 
their impression on my plates. But an incense-burner of 
red clay found in 
the Lago de Ama- 
titlan failed to ex¬ 
cite the delicate 
film, so dark was 
the room and so re¬ 
fractory the color; 
the form was most 
complicated, quite 
rivalling in this re¬ 
spect those ancient 
Japanese bronzes 
used for the same 
1 One of these stirrups 
(seen in the figure), given 
to me by Don Enrique 
Terra-cotta Figurines. Toriello, then Jefe at Liv- 
ingston, now Charge d’Af¬ 
faires and Consul-General of Guatemala at New York, weighs five and a half 
pounds, and is seventeen inches loner. 
