The specimen now in the New York Museum, page 113, is about five feet in height, and while, artistically, it is crude, it exhibits great skill in the potter’s art. The walls are thin and it must have taken much labour to build the figure and successfully file it. It is in three parts. There are also in the Museum several of the funeral urns found in this locality. They are about fifteen or twenty inches high and skilfully made. These urns were found “in series of five in front of tombs, on the roof, or fastened into the façade.” They are usually of grotesque design like most of the Amerind figures, and evidently represent personages arrayed in the regalia of certain orders or societies, or possibly the same personage in his various offices, or attended by representations of other officers of some society to which he belonged. Saville says of one group: “Resting directly on the cement floor at the centre of the mound were five large funeral urns, page 115, representing seated figures, placed in a row facing west. The urn in the centre has a remarkably well-modelled face, undoubtedly a portrait of some ancient Zapotecan personage. The two on either side are of the same general size and character, with the exception of the face, which is covered with a mask in the form of a grotesque face, possibly the conventionalised serpent, as the bifurcated tongue is one of the most prominent characteristics.”[94] These are some of the most important terra-cotta productions ever found on this continent. Some terra-cotta tubing also found at this place is unique. Saville says: “No such terra-cotta tubing has ever been discovered elsewhere in Mexico, and a new problem is therefore presented.” One end of this tubing was three feet below the surface in a field, while the other was in the mound excavated. “It was laid in short sections, of varying length, one end being smaller than the other, the small end of one tube being fitted into the large end of the next, page 117. Several of the joints still preserved the cement with which they were made tight. The exploration did not reveal the use of the pipe.” The fact, however, that the tubes were so carefully fitted into each other with, apparently, the joinings all on the down slope, that is, connected in such a way that water would flow continuously without waste, and that the joints were made tight with cement, is good evidence that these pipes were laid for conducting water. It seems probable that this tubing was a part of some water-supply or irrigating scheme, which had been abandoned before the mound covering a part of it was constructed. As the valley where these interesting finds were made, as well as neighbouring valleys, contain many more mounds, it is probable that the future exploration of them will produce much more material of value. If the terra-cotta tubing had a mythological significance it will be found in other mounds, and if it belonged to an irrigating