. Bulletin. Ethnology. 10 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOIXX5Y [Bdll. 141 The front (west) edge supported three rectangular niches, the rear ed*ge was plain. In the middle of the rear edge was a basin-shaped depression 1 foot in diameter. The floor in front of this pit showed evidence of burning, and the earth underneath was baked to a bright red color. A very similar floor was found in a mound of the Small Mound Locality in the northwest part of the site (trench 14). Beside the basinlike depression stood a flat-bottomed cylindrical pot of ill- fixed coarse paste, which contained a heterogeneous asso
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 10 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOIXX5Y [Bdll. 141 The front (west) edge supported three rectangular niches, the rear ed*ge was plain. In the middle of the rear edge was a basin-shaped depression 1 foot in diameter. The floor in front of this pit showed evidence of burning, and the earth underneath was baked to a bright red color. A very similar floor was found in a mound of the Small Mound Locality in the northwest part of the site (trench 14). Beside the basinlike depression stood a flat-bottomed cylindrical pot of ill- fixed coarse paste, which contained a heterogeneous assortment of ma- rine shells, bits of coral, a fragment of fossilized bone, etc., and a jade bead. Stirling remarks that the contents, aside from the bead, looked like the results of a souvenir hunter's half hour on the beach. This was the only complete vessel recovered. Scattered through the mound mass above the floor were numerous sherds of a large appar- ently zoomorphic pottery figure, and nearer the center of the mound w^ere remnants of another. y/////////^^///I;/i^//W//^^^^^ JCyU. Primary Moyrid mmM/^//y//w/mfwiiMm/mmM^^^^. PLAN Figure 3.—Trench 31, plan. A small cross-trench was put down 72 inches below the floor of the main trench. A few sherds were found throughout the depth of this cut. Trench 32 was a cross section through another small mound, in the large plaza about 120 feet northwest of trench 31. It was laid out 18 feet wide. This mound, like the preceding, contained but little in the way of structural features. Just east of the center of the mound, the poorly preserved remnants of a floor of clay and stucco (a stucco cap?) were found. The plan of the structure could not be defined. A large incensario, or the stand of one, was found near the west end of the trench. It had been coated with white • stucco, and dec- orated in red, pink, and black. With it were 6 fire-blackened jade beads and a number of pieces of mica. Two burials were found, the first (11-21) bein
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