. Bulletin. Ethnology. 110 BUREAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 64. -Bird carrying a fish outlined on shallow I found in Mound No. 17. (b) A shallow plaque, 28 cm. in diameter, painted throughout a dark reddish-yeUow, and finely polished. Upon the upper surface was outlined in fine black fines a bird, apparently a sea hawk, carry- ing in its claw a good-sized fish, possibly a stone bass ( 59). The artist probably witnessed this event many times, as the mouth of the Rio Hondo, where stone bass abound, is a favorite fish- ing ground for sea hawks and frigate birds. (c) A number of painted an
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 110 BUREAU OF AMEEICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 64. -Bird carrying a fish outlined on shallow I found in Mound No. 17. (b) A shallow plaque, 28 cm. in diameter, painted throughout a dark reddish-yeUow, and finely polished. Upon the upper surface was outlined in fine black fines a bird, apparently a sea hawk, carry- ing in its claw a good-sized fish, possibly a stone bass ( 59). The artist probably witnessed this event many times, as the mouth of the Rio Hondo, where stone bass abound, is a favorite fish- ing ground for sea hawks and frigate birds. (c) A number of painted and glazed potsherds of all sizes. Beneath this second chamber a thii'd was discovered, roofed in with rough flags, of the same dimensions as the other two. The floor of this chamber was cemented over; nothing except fimestone blocks and mortar was found between it and the bot- tom of the mound. Upon the floor lay a soUtary plaque, of a deep reddish-yellow color, the upper surface divided by black lines into four equal spaces, in each of which was crudely outlined in black a fish, probably meant to represent a stone bass. On digging into the summit of the mound outside the area occupied by the chambers, the foUowing objects were brought to fight: (a) A cylindrical vase of light, thin, well-made pottery, 16^ cm. high by 13 cm. in diameter, painted light yellow throughout and finely pofished (fig. 60). Upon one side of the vase, within an oblong space outfined in black, are a number of curious mythological animals, above which is a row of six glyphs, seemingly explanatory of the picture be- neath (pi. 19, a). Both animals and glyphs are very carefully executed in red, black, and brown, on a yellow background. The lowest figure on the right somewhat resembles that on a vase in the American Museum of Natural History,^ upon which the Long- nosed god is associated with bulbfike objects, flowers, and a bird (probably a pefican). On this vase the Long-nosed god is seen with a bulblike ob
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