. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. Fig. 25. Pottery vessels from Guatemala. special study of these vessels, will throw light on this question. Thebroad geographic area within which these pieces are found proves thatin them we have to deal with ware which was distributed by to-day, isolated places of manufacture—us, for example, Chi-nautla in Guatemala—provide the whole region within a radius of manydays journey with pottery wares. In ancient times beautiful pottery vessels were a much-prized tells of the Mayas that custom required
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. Fig. 25. Pottery vessels from Guatemala. special study of these vessels, will throw light on this question. Thebroad geographic area within which these pieces are found proves thatin them we have to deal with ware which was distributed by to-day, isolated places of manufacture—us, for example, Chi-nautla in Guatemala—provide the whole region within a radius of manydays journey with pottery wares. In ancient times beautiful pottery vessels were a much-prized tells of the Mayas that custom required them at the close of afeast to give to each guest a mantle, a carved stool, and a potteryvessel, as delicate and costly as the host could afford. In the presentstate of our knowledge it can not be stated in what region these glazedvessels were made. Only so much can be said, that it must have beena region of the tierra caliente, or lying very near it, where the tapir,the parrot, the coati, the monkey, and the toad of the tierra caliente a Now of the Bureau of America
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