Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . at Port Royal on Roatan where broken rum bottles are stillbeing washed up and down by the surf. As a whole, the material from the islands is surprising. In manythings it agrees with the adjacent Chorotegan mainland, but there arealso many traits showing more distant connections. Much of the pot-tery, especially the thin polychrome ware (predominantly from theupper layers), certain greenstone carvings, and the mace heads aremore characteristic of the Nicoya Peninsula on the Pacific. The cop-per bells, stone knives, plumed heads,
Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . at Port Royal on Roatan where broken rum bottles are stillbeing washed up and down by the surf. As a whole, the material from the islands is surprising. In manythings it agrees with the adjacent Chorotegan mainland, but there arealso many traits showing more distant connections. Much of the pot-tery, especially the thin polychrome ware (predominantly from theupper layers), certain greenstone carvings, and the mace heads aremore characteristic of the Nicoya Peninsula on the Pacific. The cop-per bells, stone knives, plumed heads, and some of the ceramics pointto the north and west. Particularly striking are a number of vesselsclosely duplicating, in pottery, the beautiful marble vases from theUloa Valley (fig. 61). Finally, in lugs and incised decoration on theunslipped pottery are certain Antillean resemblances. As to the ulti-mate derivation of this rather heterogeneous composite, preliminarystudy suggests South American rather than northern origins. SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I933 53. Fig. 62.—Polychrome vase /;; situ. Ruatan Island offertory.
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