. Bulletin. Ethnology. MEGGERS AND EVANS] ARCHEOLOGY AT MOUTH OF AMAZON 435. I CM Figure 154.—Acauan Phase spindle whorl from M-3—Acauan. would have shown wear on the ends where it would have rubbed against another bead. The paste is Piryzal Plain. Figurine head (fig. 155).—Several sherds were assembled to form half a head, broken off at the neck. It is hollow, varying in wall thickness from 4r-9 mm. tapering from cm. wide at the neck to a narrow flat top. The existing fragment is cm, high and cm. wide from edge to nose. On the back a spiral design has been incised, perhaps suggest
. Bulletin. Ethnology. MEGGERS AND EVANS] ARCHEOLOGY AT MOUTH OF AMAZON 435. I CM Figure 154.—Acauan Phase spindle whorl from M-3—Acauan. would have shown wear on the ends where it would have rubbed against another bead. The paste is Piryzal Plain. Figurine head (fig. 155).—Several sherds were assembled to form half a head, broken off at the neck. It is hollow, varying in wall thickness from 4r-9 mm. tapering from cm. wide at the neck to a narrow flat top. The existing fragment is cm, high and cm. wide from edge to nose. On the back a spiral design has been incised, perhaps suggesting some hair style, while on the front the face is shown by a T-shaped applique 5 mm. high and cm. long forming the eyebrow and nose, and small applique eyes. The diadem across the forehead is similar to that on the figurine from J-12—Jurupucii (fig. 158). The paste is Piryzal Plain with the exterior well smoothed and the interior unsmoothed leaving the cm. wide coils still visible. Flake {fig. 156).—This quartzite flake has a distinct bulb of percussion with no retouch on the edges. It measures cm. long, cm. wide, tapering from a paper-thin edge to cm. thick in the center and cm. thick at the bulb of percussion. Stamp (figs. 157, 202, a).—An almost complete circular pottery stamp with a handle is made of Piryzal Plain. The short, tapered handle measures 5 cm. long with the total length of the object 7 cm. The stamp is circular, measuring cm. in diameter, and has a slightly convex surface. The center of the pattern is com- posed of two raised and irregular concentric circles cm. and cm. in diameter. Rays separated by grooves, 3 to 4 mm. wide and 2 to 3 mm. deep, emanate from the outer circle. Since some of the incisions forming the design are quite ragged and the convex contour would not work well in impressing wet clay, it is probable that. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been d
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