. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. h the Junta Colombina de Mexico issued in commemoration ofthe four hundredth centenary of the discovery of America. And then,too, the magnificent monuments of Santa Lucia Cozumalhuapa certainlyoriginated at just such a point of contact between Nahuatl and Mayacivilizations. SELER] ANTIQUITIES OF GUATEMALA 113 The sketches of three vessels, which I reproduce below, came to methrough the kindness of Mr Dieseldortf from the above-mentionedPipil territory on the Rio Motagua. They come from the little placeRio Hondo, lying
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. h the Junta Colombina de Mexico issued in commemoration ofthe four hundredth centenary of the discovery of America. And then,too, the magnificent monuments of Santa Lucia Cozumalhuapa certainlyoriginated at just such a point of contact between Nahuatl and Mayacivilizations. SELER] ANTIQUITIES OF GUATEMALA 113 The sketches of three vessels, which I reproduce below, came to methrough the kindness of Mr Dieseldortf from the above-mentionedPipil territory on the Rio Motagua. They come from the little placeRio Hondo, lying on the Motagua opposite the mouth of the Copanriver, and belong to the collection of Mr B. Castaneda in Zacapa. Thefirst vessel (c, figure 26) has a height of cm. and a diameter at thebottom of cm. and at the mouth of 16 cm., and the thickness ofthe walls is 4 mm. The second vessel (tf, figure 27) is cm. high, cm. in diameter at the mouth, and the thickness of its walls is5 mm. The figure and the hieroglyph tablet are repeated three times W W 8^ &m. Fig. 27. Glyphs from Maya codices and design on Guatemalan vessel. on the circumference of the vessel, but the drawing is badly injured byfire. The third vessel (a, figure 28) is cm. high, the diametermeasures at the bottom cm., at the mouth cm., and the wallsare 6 mm. thick. The first of these three vessels is of pure Maya character. Thefigures, as well as the hieroglyphs, might have been copied directlyfrom a Maya manuscript. The second is also unmistakably of Ma}^acharacter, though the position of the figure is decidedly stiffer. Thethird, however, has an especial character. The models of its figures canonly be found in Mexican or kindred manuscripts (Mixtec and Zapotec),and what hieroglyphs there are differ in every way from the familiar7238—No. 28—05 8 114 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 forms in Maya hieroglyphs. If it is true of any specimen, we havein this vessel the artistic prod
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