Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . b. Fig. 16. Pottery vessels in the form of animal heads, Guatemala. seats. There were, further, remains of pots, most of them withoutdecoration. One fragment had a hole drilled under the rim, doubtlessfor a cord by which the vessel was carried. A fragment of the rim ofa thick vessel showed linear decorations scratched on it. But near bywere also found two feet, belonging to vessels, in the form of animalheads of the types copied in a and h, figure 16, apparently of the same 90 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BXTLL. 28 mat
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . b. Fig. 16. Pottery vessels in the form of animal heads, Guatemala. seats. There were, further, remains of pots, most of them withoutdecoration. One fragment had a hole drilled under the rim, doubtlessfor a cord by which the vessel was carried. A fragment of the rim ofa thick vessel showed linear decorations scratched on it. But near bywere also found two feet, belonging to vessels, in the form of animalheads of the types copied in a and h, figure 16, apparently of the same 90 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BXTLL. 28 material as the other vessels. There was, further, a pottery stamp witha simple geometric or meander pattern; also clay l)alls, which DoctorSapper calls blowgun balls, but which, it is more likely, came out ofthe hollow handles of incense spoons, and may be designated as rattlestones. There were found two fragments of stone hatchets, one offlint, the other of a hornblendic quartz rock; a whetstone, a flint arrow-head, various small obsidian knives, a piece of rock crystal, co
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