. Bulletin. Ethnology. Fig. 65.—Torso, head, and headdress from Mound No. 20. ended holow in a floor of hard cement 12 inches thick. The greater part of these moldings had been broken away, but portions were stiU adherent to the wall and great quantities of fragments, painted red and blue, were found immediately beneath the wall from which they had been broken. The most im- /^ -v,:*-^'^^-'^*fi*?'^ _ \ portant of these were: (a) Two human torsos, one (the more elaborate) of which is seen in figure 65, c. (b) Three human heads, one of which is rep- resented in figure 65, h, in situ. Both heads a
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Fig. 65.—Torso, head, and headdress from Mound No. 20. ended holow in a floor of hard cement 12 inches thick. The greater part of these moldings had been broken away, but portions were stiU adherent to the wall and great quantities of fragments, painted red and blue, were found immediately beneath the wall from which they had been broken. The most im- /^ -v,:*-^'^^-'^*fi*?'^ _ \ portant of these were: (a) Two human torsos, one (the more elaborate) of which is seen in figure 65, c. (b) Three human heads, one of which is rep- resented in figure 65, h, in situ. Both heads and torsos are life size, and both are painted red and blue throughout.^ (c) TSvo headdresses, one of wliich is seen in situ in figure 65, a; the other is almost precisely similar in coloring and design, (d) Fragments of elabo- rately molded pillars, wliich had originally separated the figures on the waU. A portion of one of these is sho\vn in figure 66. Tliis design was repeated tlu-ee times upon the front of the pillar, the back of wliich was flattened for attachment to the wall. Great quantities of fragments of painted stucco, of aU shapes and sizes, were dug out of the mound, but the human figures, with the piUars wliich sepa- rated them, were the only objects the original positions of which on the waU it was possible to determine with certainty. Resting upon the layer of hard cement in wliich the waU terminated below, between 5 and 6 feet from the eastern end and close to the wall itself, was found an adult human skeleton, the bones of wliich were hud- fUed together witliin a very small compass, in a manner suggesting secondary burial. In remov- ing these bones nearly all of them crumbled to pieces. Tliroughout the whole mound were found numerous potsherds, some of very fine pottery, colored and polished; others tliick, rough, and undecorated. Fragments of fhnt and obsidian, broken flint spearheads and scrapers, and broken obsidian knives were also found. 1 The photojjrap
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