. Certain antiquities of eastern Mexico. Fig. 65. Paddle-shaped stone representing lizard.(Dehesa collection.) (Reverse of a, plate cxviii.) PHWKES] OBJECTS FROM CEMPOALAN AND XICO 263 PADLOCK STONES The problematical objects from the Totonac region include certainstones recalling in shape common padlocks, circular in form, with flatsurfaces and margins, each with a triangular opening excentricallyplaced. These stones may be conventional forms of Huaxtec their less conventionalized form these probleinatical objects recall. Fig. 56. Reverse of paddle- Fig. 57. Paddle-shaped stone with
. Certain antiquities of eastern Mexico. Fig. 65. Paddle-shaped stone representing lizard.(Dehesa collection.) (Reverse of a, plate cxviii.) PHWKES] OBJECTS FROM CEMPOALAN AND XICO 263 PADLOCK STONES The problematical objects from the Totonac region include certainstones recalling in shape common padlocks, circular in form, with flatsurfaces and margins, each with a triangular opening excentricallyplaced. These stones may be conventional forms of Huaxtec their less conventionalized form these probleinatical objects recall. Fig. 56. Reverse of paddle- Fig. 57. Paddle-shaped stone with Fig. 58^ Reverse of a, plateshaped stone. dancing figure; reverse of a, plate cxvii. oxvi. (Dehesa collection.) stone idols, resembling an aged man leaning on a staff, as shown infigure 69, an idol believed to be characteristically Huaxtec in originand limited to the Huaxtec territory in its distribution, although some-times found in regions adjoining that in which this culture flourishedin ancient times. 264 CERTAIN ANTIQUITIES OF EASTERN MEXICO [hth. ann. 25 STONE HEADS Among many evidences of a high ability in artistic expressionattained by the ancient people of eastern Mexico may be mentioned thecarved stone heads, specimens of which are represented in, plates oxx and cxxi. These objectsare made of lava rock, andall have notches at the neckscorresponding in a generalway to those at the bases ofthe paddle-shaped some cases, as in that fig-ured (plate cxx, e), a humanface is sculptured within ahelmet representin
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