. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 20.—Costa Rican stonework. Left: Stirrup pestle. Right: Stone stand, Las Mercedes (diameter o£ stand, 6 in. ( cm.)). (After Lothrop, 1926 b, figs. 16 and 259.) Quite possibly they were used as seats. Simple legless forms were prob- ably used for ordinary household purposes on the Pacific, as seems to have been the case in the Highlands. The elaborate, legged metate type, representing a decorative peak for the Americas in this regard, occurs south in the Chiriqui region and north into central and eastern Honduras. Maces or club heads of stone are very typical i
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Figure 20.—Costa Rican stonework. Left: Stirrup pestle. Right: Stone stand, Las Mercedes (diameter o£ stand, 6 in. ( cm.)). (After Lothrop, 1926 b, figs. 16 and 259.) Quite possibly they were used as seats. Simple legless forms were prob- ably used for ordinary household purposes on the Pacific, as seems to have been the case in the Highlands. The elaborate, legged metate type, representing a decorative peak for the Americas in this regard, occurs south in the Chiriqui region and north into central and eastern Honduras. Maces or club heads of stone are very typical in Nicoya graves (pi. 14, a, b). Hartman classifies these as having human, mammal, and bird heads; as representing two-legged monsters or alligators; or as round or star-shaped. The latter forms, including mammiform heads, have a wide distribution both to the north and south. Bark beaters of stone are of two types (pi. 14, d, e). One of these is a flat disk, grooved around the edges for attaching a handle, and ridged on the two flat surfaces. The other is cylindrical, with the enlarged end ridged and the smaller end serving as a handle. The disk type, as Lothrop. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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