. Bulletin. Ethnology. 128 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bdll. 64 Mound No. 31 Mound No. 31 was situated close to the Eio Nuevo, about 16 miles from its moutli, in the northern part of British Honduras. It was a somewhat flattened mound, 15 feet in height, built of blocks of lime- stone, limestone dust, and earth. At a depth of 9 feet, the angle of a ruined building, formed by two walls averaging 2 feet high, intersect- ing at right angles, and built of squared blocks of limestone, was. Fig. 73.—Pottery vessels found in Mound No. 31. brought to light. The walls enclosed part of a floor of smoo
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 128 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bdll. 64 Mound No. 31 Mound No. 31 was situated close to the Eio Nuevo, about 16 miles from its moutli, in the northern part of British Honduras. It was a somewhat flattened mound, 15 feet in height, built of blocks of lime- stone, limestone dust, and earth. At a depth of 9 feet, the angle of a ruined building, formed by two walls averaging 2 feet high, intersect- ing at right angles, and built of squared blocks of limestone, was. Fig. 73.—Pottery vessels found in Mound No. 31. brought to light. The walls enclosed part of a floor of smooth, hard cement. Nmiibers of blocks of squared stone were found throughout the upper part of the mound, which had evidently at one time formed part of the ruined building. Resting on the cement floor, close to the wall, were found nine pottery vessels, covered with limestone dust. Five of these were of the type shown in figure 73, a, of dark-red, rather coarse pottery, 12 inches in diameter at the rim. One, pictured in figure 74, is the usual Maya chocolate pot, similar to the one already described (see fig. 24, g), except that the spout, instead of bending inward toward the vessel, passes directly \C ~1 upward parallel to its perpendicular axis, PI an arrangement which must have ren- ( dered it far easier to drink from the ves- >, sel or pour fluid out of it. The three y ) other vessels foimd are illustrated in fig- \ • J ures 73, h, c, and (Z; h is of pohshed choco- N^^^ ^^^^ late-brown pottery, 3 inches in diameter ^'- • -^ by 5 inches in height; c is of thick red '"• ''-U^o^d No.'3^ '°''' ''' pottery, 3 inches high, with two small handles for suspension, one on each side; d is of coarse polished red ware, unusually thick and clumsy, 12 inches high by 8 inches in diameter. Each of these vessels con- tained a single smaU polished greenstone bead. No other objects were found associated with them, and there was no trace of hmiian bones. Excavations were made in
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