Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . ^ figuresof Yucatan, in the stone monuments of Menche Tinamit, and else-where, has finally become predominant. This would best explain tome the projecting band by which the face mask of our Lacandonvessels is bordered above the forehead, which is wanting only in themask of figure 13.^ This, then, would represent what remains ofthe animal jaw, and the erect, comblike object above it the relic of a. a h c Fig. 14. Pottery vessels from Guatemala. tuft of feathers, which rises in most of these figures above the crown orthe
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . ^ figuresof Yucatan, in the stone monuments of Menche Tinamit, and else-where, has finally become predominant. This would best explain tome the projecting band by which the face mask of our Lacandonvessels is bordered above the forehead, which is wanting only in themask of figure 13.^ This, then, would represent what remains ofthe animal jaw, and the erect, comblike object above it the relic of a. a h c Fig. 14. Pottery vessels from Guatemala. tuft of feathers, which rises in most of these figures above the crown orthe nostrils. The vessel shown in 6, figure 13, which, instead of theband above the forehead and the comblike, erect object, shows only anotched edge of the forehead, appears to represent the last stage ofthis development. 1 need not especially dwell upon the fact that the face masks containonly things which have long since gone out of use, which the makersof these vessels no longer had before their eyes, and which they merelyrepeated in stereotyped fashion. Neither the ear pegs, nor the knob-like objects resting on the cheeks (cheek pegs?), nor the knob, which isdifiicult to explain, placed above the root of the nose, nor the deepcuts which outline the upper lip in figure 13, are used to-day amongthe Lacandons. Like the Lacandons themselves, these vessels, fossil-ized, as it were, represent the remains of a long-vanished epoch ofcivilization. The territories of the
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