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Chorotegan artists. From the monuments etc. found farther
northwards at Copan, Quiriguâ, Uxmal, Palenque, and other places
in Central America, the works here described differ most considerably,
indeed so much that it is not easy to point out more than a few
common artistic features.
With the exception of the meagre notices, communicated by
Oviedo and Cerezada and their compilers, the source of our
knowledge of Nicaraguan antiquities is E. G. Squier’s interesting work
«Nicaragua: its people, scenery, monuments and the
proposed interoceanic canal». After Squier some other American
investigators have followed in the road opened by him; Dr Earl
Flint of Rivas has during many years searched for and collected
antiquities, partly in the Department of Rivas, partly in the island
of Ometepec. I am obliged to Dr Flint for much valuable
information on the present subject, kindly communicated to me, when I had
the pleasure of meeting with him at Rivas in January 1883. He
has sent the collections gradually brought together by himself, to
the Smithsonian Institution. In « Archaeological researches
in Nicaragua»* Dr J. F. Bransford gives a highly interesting
description of his researches in Ometepec, where he made a large
collection of grave-urns, other vessels of pottery, and smaller relics
of stone and metal. He occupied himself principally in investigating
burying-places on the west side of the island and he has thrown
a new light on this part of Niquiran archaeology. His very
large collection, of 788 numéros, is deposited in the collections of
the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He has also figured
several rock-carvings from Ometepec; these seem to be a little ruder
and less complicate than those delineated by me from the island of
Ceiba. Dr Bransford also describes several ancient relics from
* Smithsonian Contributions to knowledge (383), vol. 25. Washington 1885 (1881).
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