Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Antiquities; Nicaragua -- Antiquities
It was no more a statue, but only a pedestal. The little, sitting
figure described and designed by SQUIER was now entirely crushed and
moldered. The pedestal was, however, the most elaborately finished
of all found here. It was round, tapering gently downwards, adorned
upwards with the same kind of angular ornament, as that mentioned on
the front of the preceding pedestal; almost at the middle of its length
it was surrounded by a broad band, embellished in the same fashion. The
pedestal, lying on the ground, had quite the form of a canon. From the
upper edge to the lower broken end it measured 215 cm.; the diameter at
the upper end was 66 cm. It was found between the mounds I and II.
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Pl. 26.
Figured by SQUIER, l. c., in the plate
facing p. 58, signed no. 5, described p. 59.
Male, half-sitting figure, representing a very fat person with his
hands resting on his hips. The face was badly injured, but showed
that the forehead and the nose were straighter than those figured by
SQUIER. The ears were long, hanging, like the ears of a dog. The upper
arm was very short; the abdomen swollen. Legs and feet were thick and
clumsy. The back piece was very large in proportion to the figure, only
plane-cut, and seemed to indicate that the statue had formed part of
a wall or even served as a kind of coulisse or side-wall in a cella.
The lower part of the back piece was pierced with a circular hole;
another much larger hole perforates the pedestal, which was perfectly
unadorned. The statue measured 98 cm. from the crown of the head to the
sole of the foot. It was found lying near the preceding.
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Pl. 27 and 28.
Figured by SQUIER, l. c., on the
plate facing p. 52, described p. 52 and 58.
BANCROFT, l. c., p. 42, fig. 3.
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