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banks Bernal Diaz Boston broken burials calcite carved Casas Central America ceramic art character coast Comayagua Cortez Dark gray ware depth DESIGN PAINTED distant from mouthpiece dragon entire equally distant evidence explorations FIGURES AND MASKS forest fragments of bone GEORGE BYRON GORDON Guatemala Gulf of Honduras HELIOTYPE Hollow image Honduras human form Humuya inches Indian interior jadeite layers Luis Marin Maya Maya civilization MEMOIRS PEABODY MUSEUM Mexico miles mound mountains Muertos Musical instrument Nicho ornament PAINTED ON VASE Pimienta plain surface PLATE VIII Plate XII PORTION OF WHISTLE PORTIONS OF TERRA POTTERY VESSEL QUEBRADA ENCANTADA region remains Reports represented resemblance San Pedro Sula Sandoval shown in Fig similar specimen from Copan stone strata stream Sulaco TERRA COTTA FIGURES THREE COLORS three notes three vents tion Uloa and Chemilicon Uloa River ULOA VALLEY variety of forms vents equal whistles or musical ZELIA NUTTALL
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Page 90 - NUMBER 1. Standard or Head-dress? An historical essay on a relic of Ancient Mexico.
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Page 90 - EHTHOMPSON. 20 pages. Illustrations in text, and 13 plates. 1897. $1.25. Number 4. RESEARCHES IN THE ULOA VALLEY. — By GEORGE BYRON GORDON. 44 pages. Illustrations in text, map and 12 plates. 1898. Number 5. CAVERNS OF COPAN. — By GEORGE BYRON GORDON. 12 pages, map and 1 plate. 1898. Nos. 4 and...
Page 127 - ... possessed in the island of Teneriffe. This document we subsequently forwarded to the latter place. May God have mercy on his soul : Amen. We now marched further on to some townships, in the neighbourhood of -which gold mines were discovered three years afterwards. From this place we came to Quinistan, and the following day in the forenoon we arrived at Naco, which at that time was a township of considerable magnitude, but there was not a single inhabitant to be seen, and we quartered ourselves...
Page 105 - ... of the pool and receive the offerings that were made to him by the people. If they wanted rain they would bring their offerings and lay them on the golden sand beside the pool, or cast them on the water ; then, while all the people chanted a prayer, the dragon would rise from the cave where he dwelt in the depths of the pool, and take the good things that were offered him, and there never was a drought or a famine in the land.
Page 105 - ... rain. In fact it is a regular weather bureau, with this peculiarity, that it is always reliable ; for the sound is so modulated as to indicate by its pitch whether the coming storm is to be heavy or light. The amount of promised rain is in exact proportion to the volume of sound, and thus it proclaims to the accustomed ear with unerring precision the approach of a passing shower or heralds the terrific thunder-storm of the tropics ; and this is no fiction, but a fact which any one may demonstrate...
Page 106 - ... land. Then, when the Spaniards came and the people were driven from their homes, the golden pebbles and grains of gold disappeared, and the golden dragon, retiring into the uttermost corner of his watery cavern, withdrew forever from the upper world. There he still lives, and, as formerly, controls the clouds and the winds that bring the rain. The spirits of the Indians, too, still hold their meetings of an occasional evening by their accustomed pool, now lost in the solitude of the forest, and...
Page 129 - No. 3. too minute to supply any information respecting the form of the burials," or, what is much more important, the character of the skeletons themselves, from which the racial affinities of the people might perhaps be determined. Scarcely second in interest to the long-sought " Rosetta stone of the Mayas " would be a moderately large series of Maya skeletons in a fair state of preservation.
Page 90 - By GEORGE BYRON GORDON. 44 pages. Illustrations in text, map and 12 plates. 1898. Number 5. CAVERNS OF COPAN. — By GEORGE BYRON GORDON. 12 pages, map and 1 plate. 1898. Nos. 4 and 5 under one cover, $1.50.
Page 130 - What we find is evidence pointing to an extended period of constant culture during which certain arts which flourished in this region manifest a development equal to that attained by the highest civilizations of Central America. There is no evidence of the use of metals, and architectural remains are entirely wanting.