are piled on each other so as to connect the upright pillars.... When I last saw the monument it looked like a diminutive and dilapidated Stonehenge.”[158] Another pair of similar panthers occurs at not a great distance off at a place now called the _Potrero de los Idolos_. The size is about the same as the others. “One of them is completely destroyed by treasure hunters, who loosened both from the rock by a blast of powder, and then heaved the ponderous blocks out by means of crowbars. After breaking one of the figures to pieces they satisfied themselves that nothing was buried underneath.... The imperfections of the sculpture are very apparent; were it not for the statements of the Indians, who positively assert that the intention of the makers was to represent a puma, it would be considered to be a gigantic lizard.”[159] [Illustration: THE ALOSAKA (MOKI) After drawing by A. M. Stephen ] [Illustration: SCULPTURAL ART OF CHIRIQUI Fragmentary figure in grey basaltic rock. ] [Illustration: SHELL GORGET, TENNESSEE. Apparently a human figure, with face in profile to the left of the circle near the top. The nose is cut away by a perforation ] The metates or mealing stones, abundant in modern and ancient villages, and which in the Far South are elaborately carved oftentimes, are, in the South-west, so far as I have observed in the field and in reports of investigators, never decorated in the faintest degree. Articles, also, of various kinds that among the Haidas or Tlinkits would be covered with carving, have here not a vestige of it. Nor is there any carving about the house timbers or the stones that enter into the wall construction, places where the Aztecs, and especially the Mayas, lavished their skill. The Mokis make little clay images which they fire for the children, but they are without merit. Nor do the Navajo, the Pima, the Apache, Yuma, or any of the other stocks attempt anything in the direction of carving, so that it seems safe to say that the South-west has not produced any carving worthy of note, either in modern or ancient times. The ruins so far as known are as barren of carved articles as the modern occupied houses.