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Excerpt from The Sculptures of Santa Lucia Cozumahualpa, Guatemala, in the Ethnological Museum of Berlin A part of these treasures adorning the Berlin Ethnological Museum have now become a gift to our own in the form of excellent plaster casts. They are to be found on the north side of the upper story of the museum of natural history in the prehistoric collection. The author of the present account of them has deemed it incumbent upon him to publish something concerning their significance, so that the public, by understanding them better, may be led to take more interest in them. The discoveries at Santa Lucia are remains of an important settle ment which must have been destroyed long before 1522, the date of the plundering of the country by Alvarado; for had it not been so, we should have had notices about it from the Spaniards. That this destruction must have been a forcible one is proved by the disorderly position of the remains hitherto discovered, especially such as plainly formed parts of buildings. This is shown by the plan of the site pub lished by Bastian in the Berlin Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, Vol. VIII, p. 322. The rank tropical vegetation had covered these remains and given them over to oblivion, until, centuries later, chance brought them to light again, and thus gave us a glimpse into a civilization previously quite unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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