Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Antiquities; Nicaragua -- Antiquities
Male, standing figure. Head, chest with arms, and upper part of legs
broken off, and lying in four pieces on the ground. The pedestal
was square, with the upper part ornamented with angular wreaths; it
remained fixed in the ground in its original place, and carried still
the feet and the legs (to the knees) of the figure. The face was of
quite a different type from those of A and B, with very prominent
cheek-bones, large lips, and strongly protruding under-jaw; it was
adorned with a crown-shaped head-gear. The ears were also here hidden
by flat pieces, thickening upwards, with the lower corners rounded.
The back of this statue, as well as its position in the periphery of
the stone-mound, points to its having formed part of the wall of the
building; but it seems not, however, to have served the purpose of
supporting the roof, because the upper part of the crown was finely
chiselled, and exhibited no trace of a tenon. It differed in this point
from all the other statues in the circumference of the mound 1, with
the exception of E 1, that was situated almost opposite to D at the
western longside. The height of the head from the upper rim of the
crown to the lower edge of the chin was 45 cm. The length of the trunk
from the shoulders to the thighs was 60 cm. The breadth across the
shoulders was 54 cm.
D 1
Not figured.
At a distance of 5 m. from D, in the periphery of the mound, there
rose obliquely from the ground a male, half-sitting statue with its
arms crossed. The head and the uppermost part of the chest with
the exception of the right shoulder were wanting, and could not be
identified among the existing fragments. It wore a beard reaching to
the crossed arms, being in this respect as well as in posture and
workmanship very like F. It measured 102 cm. from the shoulder to the
thighs. The breadth across the shoulders seemed to have been less than
50 cm.
D 2
Not figured.
Near the place that ought to have been occupied by the next statue,
there were lying fragments of an unusually narrow, square pedestal or
pillar. It was narrower than the following E, but in other respects it
resembled this more than it did any of the others found here.
E
Pl. 5.
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