Produced by Louise Hope, PM for Bureau of American Ethnology, The Internet Archive: American Libraries and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) [This e-text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding, mainly fractions used in illustration captions: ⅙ ⅕ ⅔ [all rare] ⅓ [1/3] If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. Depending on available fonts, some tables may not line up vertically. As a last resort, use the Latin-1 version of the file instead.] ANCIENT ART of the PROVINCE OF CHIRIQUI, COLOMBIA. by WILLIAM H. HOLMES. CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 13 Geography 13 Literature 14 Peoples 15 The cemeteries 16 The graves 17 Human remains 20 Placing of relics 21 Objects of art 21 Stone 21 Pictured rocks 21 Columns 22 Images 23 Mealing stones 25 Stools 27 Celts &c. 29 Spearheads 34 Arrowpoints 34 Ornaments 34 Metal 35 Gold and copper 35 Bronze 49 Clay: Pottery 53 Preliminary 53 How found 55 Material 55 Manufacture 56 Color 57 Use 57 Forms of vessels 58 Decoration 62