. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Fig. 6—Plan of mound 2, Santa , B. Pillars. G. K. Walls. E, Place where birds bones were found. N, Circular chamber. DPlace where idols were found. F, Place where cabbage-palm was found. C, Place where paintecanimals were found. the base; the .southern face was almost perpendicular. When theupper layer of the mound was removed it was found to oldark-brown loam with a few pieces of limestone embedded in it. Atthe l)ottom of this layer and resting- on the one immediately beneathit
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Fig. 6—Plan of mound 2, Santa , B. Pillars. G. K. Walls. E, Place where birds bones were found. N, Circular chamber. DPlace where idols were found. F, Place where cabbage-palm was found. C, Place where paintecanimals were found. the base; the .southern face was almost perpendicular. When theupper layer of the mound was removed it was found to oldark-brown loam with a few pieces of limestone embedded in it. Atthe l)ottom of this layer and resting- on the one immediately beneathit were found fragments of two idols and a quantity of Ijirds bones,together with the inferior maxilla of a small rodent. The head of oneof these idols (.supposed by Mr Dies^eklorf to be the conventionalportrait of Cuculcan) is shown in tigure 8. plate xxxii. The remarkable. < < <if) QZ< in CO Q z D o o o Q COQ< UJ I •^^?^l MOUND 2 079 resemljlance ..f the head which adorns its headdress to one foundat Quirigua lias already heen noted. The rest of this idol and tiiewhole of the one whieh was found with it are so bacUv broken as not tobe worth figuring. The bones were those of the curassow, and^ judcrfno-by the number of long leg bones which were found in good presen^a^tion, probably represented the remains of tive or six birds. The boneswere found at a point marked E on the plan of the mound (fio-ure G)close to the idols. With the idols were found a number of rou-iiunpamted Immediately beneath the loam the mound \rascovered with a fiat, evenly applied layer of mortar, from 6 to 8 inches inthickness; it was soft and friable and contained in its substance numer-ous large pieces of limestone. The next layer was composed of lime-stone blocks, the interstices between which were filled with limestonedust. A large number of the
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