. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. estone. Numerous potsherds were found within it, bothplain and painted. It was situated 195 yards almost due north ofmound 3. The two last-described ruins diflered from the one covered withstucco in that they rested on the ground level, whereas the latterstood on a platform raised 2 feet above it. 19 ETH, PT 2 8 678 MOUNDS IN NORTHERN HONDURAS [ETH. ANS. 19 MOUNDS CONTAINING POTTERY. IDOLS, AND ANIMAL EFFIGIES Mounds of the second class, namely, those containing, superficially,the fragments of
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. estone. Numerous potsherds were found within it, bothplain and painted. It was situated 195 yards almost due north ofmound 3. The two last-described ruins diflered from the one covered withstucco in that they rested on the ground level, whereas the latterstood on a platform raised 2 feet above it. 19 ETH, PT 2 8 678 MOUNDS IN NORTHERN HONDURAS [ETH. ANS. 19 MOUNDS CONTAINING POTTERY. IDOLS, AND ANIMAL EFFIGIES Mounds of the second class, namely, those containing, superficially,the fragments of two pottery idols, and more deeply or on the groundlevel a number of small painted pottery animals, either within orimmediateh around a pottery urn, next claim our attention. Three mounds of this kind were excavated at Santa Rita—2, 5. and6 on the plan. IMound 2 was situated nearly .5(»n yards east of thelarge central mound; it was 30 yards long, 25 yards wide, 96 yardsin circumference, and IS feet high at its highest part. The north-ern face of the mound sloped gently down from the summit to. Fig. 6—Plan of mound 2, Santa , B. Pillars. G. K. Walls. E, Place where birds bones were found. N, Circular chamber. DPlace where idols were found. F, Place where cabbage-palm was found. C, Place where paintecanimals were found. the base; the .southern face was almost perpendicular. When theupper layer of the mound was removed it was found to oldark-brown loam with a few pieces of limestone embedded in it. Atthe l)ottom of this layer and resting- on the one immediately beneathit were found fragments of two idols and a quantity of Ijirds bones,together with the inferior maxilla of a small rodent. The head of oneof these idols (.supposed by Mr Dies^eklorf to be the conventionalportrait of Cuculcan) is shown in tigure 8. plate xxxii. The remarkable
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