. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. d e Fig. 22. Pottery vessels from Guatemala. or had simple disklike covers (see Z>, figure 22), The vessel a, figure22, is made of light-gray clay and seems to have been without a col-ored coating. Various others are not only carefully smoothed, buthave a coating of yellowish-red or brown. A small vessel in the shapeof a bird, c, was likewise found among them, but I am not informedwhether it, too, had a cover and whether its contents were the sameas those named above. The middle mound, B, and the northern mound, C,
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. d e Fig. 22. Pottery vessels from Guatemala. or had simple disklike covers (see Z>, figure 22), The vessel a, figure22, is made of light-gray clay and seems to have been without a col-ored coating. Various others are not only carefully smoothed, buthave a coating of yellowish-red or brown. A small vessel in the shapeof a bird, c, was likewise found among them, but I am not informedwhether it, too, had a cover and whether its contents were the sameas those named above. The middle mound, B, and the northern mound, C, were less rich seler] ANTIQUITIES OF GUATEMALA 105 in finds. From the latter the Sapper collection contains a cap-shapedvessel, with a wide opening, about 10 cm. high, d. From the middleone it contains a cup-like vessel, 17 cm. high, 6, of a form frequent inYucatan and Tabasco. Both have the reddish-yellow coating which isquite common among the clay vessels of this region and of the neigh-boring Yucatan and Tabasco. The figure vessel, a, contained an obsidian knife and t
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