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that a careful comparison of this piece with such others as 
are known to be of modern make, examples of which may have 
been collected by Professor Saville, will eventually settle 
the question of its status. A brief description of the 
specimen ao be of interest. 
It is tubular in shape, twelve inches in height, 
brownish in color and uniformly polished. It is embellished 
with a broad encircling band of ornament of unusual complex- 
ity, which comprises four rows of human heads modeled in bold 
relief and three lines of hieroglyphs. The human heads are 
forty-éight in number and are inc losed in sunken panels 
formed by interlooping and interwoven ee: the arrange- 
ment as a whole giving a somewhat textile suggestion to the 
embellished band. The heads are closely alike as if formed 
by pressing the plastic clay into a common sore the eyes and 
mouths having pecs afterward. emphasized with a pointed modeling 
tool. The heads are crowned in each case with a short sceroll- 
