. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. imilar head, with hollow eye sockets, is used to decorate thefront of a cylindric vessel. Many of the feet of vessels and, commonly, the hollow handles ofincense spoons, contain little clay balls, which give these articles thecharacter of rattles. A large number of such little clay balls werecollected by Doctor Sapper in the cave of Campur. The fragment from Coban (<?, figure 17) evidently also belongs to anincense vessel, which was not held in the hand, but was meant to head, whose ornamental finish stron
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. imilar head, with hollow eye sockets, is used to decorate thefront of a cylindric vessel. Many of the feet of vessels and, commonly, the hollow handles ofincense spoons, contain little clay balls, which give these articles thecharacter of rattles. A large number of such little clay balls werecollected by Doctor Sapper in the cave of Campur. The fragment from Coban (<?, figure 17) evidently also belongs to anincense vessel, which was not held in the hand, but was meant to head, whose ornamental finish strongly recalls the style of theCopan sculptures, is doubtless intended for an animal head. But whatkind of an animal it is meant to represent unfortunately can not be SELER] ANTIQUITIES OF GUATEMALA 93 determined from the fragment, as the front of both jaws is broken the angles of the jaw a human ear, with a square ear plate, isindicated, which often occurs in animal figures, especially in such ashgure in mythology. In the small collection of antiquities which Mr.
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