Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Antiquities; Nicaragua -- Antiquities
Hardly one kilometer to the west of the burying-place examined by Dr.
BRANSFORD, a symmetrical mound, rising one meter and a half above the
ground, was dug through (Station 1). It contained a little bowl, pieces
of a larger urn of an unusual thickness, feet and fragments of a tripod
vase, and a little bronze figure of a saint, the last one evidently
a foreign guest among the other objects. At _Los Angeles_ (Stat. 2)
two statues, both very badly frayed, were measured and sketched; some
insignificant fragments of pottery were digged out. At a bay (Stat. 3)
on the north side, between _Muyogalpa_ and _Alta Gracia_, in a place
said by the Indians to have formerly been a town, fragments of divers
small pottery, two stone chisels, one «molidor», and perforated and
polished shells of a species of Oliva and a species of Voluta, from the
neighboring coast of the Pacific, were dug out. In a valley, or rather
ravine (Stat. 4), near _Alta Gracia_, where a heap of pretty large,
partly cut stones seemed to indicate the site of a large building,
several fragments of pottery were found together with a cup of earthen
ware, and a well preserved little sitting image of painted terra cotta,
pretty similar to that figured by BRANSFORD, l. c., p. 59. At a height
of nearly 350 m. above the level of the lake on the west side of the
majestically beautiful volcanic cone (Stat. 5), while digging in a
rather extensive stone-mound, a very pretty, vaulted earthen urn with
lid, painted in three colours, was found, and, besides, a great many
fragments of pottery. I made excavations also at six other places in
Ometepec, for inst. in the isthmus between Ometepec and Madera, but
without any results worthy of record.
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