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of the pedestal, there was a symmetrical ornament of round coils; the sides
of the pedestal itself were decorated with an oval coil twisted about quite
symmetrically, in an excavated rectangular field; in front there was an angular
ornament. The back of the figure and of the pedestal was not elaborated, but
rather rough. It may thus be reasonably inferred that the statue has stood
in or against a wall. The height of the statue from the upper edge of the
shoulders to the lower edge of the feet was 52 cm. The height of the pedestal
from the upper edge to the beginning of the lower, uncut part, which was
intended to be imbedded in the ground, was 110 cm. This statue was not
found on the plateau of Punta de las Figuras, but had been dragged off and
was now lying, half in the water, on the shore of Bahia de Chiquero.
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PI. 25.
Figured by SQUIER, 1. c., on the plate facing p. 58, signed no. 4,
treated pp. 54 and 58. BANCROFT, 1. c., p. 40, fig. 1.
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 ot 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 lorm 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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PI. 26.
Figured by SQUIER, 1. 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
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