Mound No. 29 125 Mound No. 30 125 Mound No. 31 128 Mound No. 32 129 Mound No. 33 130 Mound No. 34 132 Mound No. 35 133 Mound No. 36 134 Mound No. 37 134 Mound No. 38 134 Mound No. 39 135 Mound No. 40 136 Mound No. 41 137 Two painted stucco faces from Uxmal 140 Authorities cited 143 Index 145 ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES Page 1. Group of Santa Cruz Indians 18 2. Maya girls fishing 26 3. Fish drying on one of the cays off the coast of Yucatan 26 4. Maya Indian houses. _a._ Leaf-thatched house, _b._ Indian house on Rio Hondo 26 5. Maya woman, 105 years old, spinning cotton 29 6. Maya loom 29 7. Sketch map of British Honduras, with adjacent parts of Yucatan and Guatemala, indicating the positions of mounds excavated 59 8. Figurines of warriors from Mound No. 1 60 9. Figurines from Mound No. 1 60 10. _a._ Section through earthwork inclosing circular space, Santa Rita. _b._ Section of wall through Santa Rita 70 11. Egg-shaped vase from Mound No. 5 70 12. Metates and brazos from Mound No. 6 75 13. _a._ Small pottery seal. _b._ Bowl in which skull was found, _c._ Skull 75 14. Skull and bones from Mound No. 8 80 15. Stone objects from Mound No. 10 88 16. _a._ Model of jadeite bivalve shell, _b._ Light-green jadeite mask, _c._ Ax head, or celt. _d._ Terra-cotta cylinder 91 17. Painted basin and cover from Mound No. 16 105 18. Pottery from Mound No. 16 107