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Tenchitlan
(Jalisco)
June

Indian
mounds

Indian mounds at
Tenchitlan

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In the morning I got my men off for Guadalajara at 5 am and then I went a mile above town on the lava strewn hillside to the "Guachimonton" as ancient mounds [[?]] are there.  This vicinity is noted for having yielded quite a number of clay images & other articles of clay, obsidian & stone. So far as I could learn these things are usually found under small conical piles of stones found on the hillsides or at edge of the level valley.

They are usually accompanied by badly decayed fragments of human bones & are at a depth of 3 to 4 ft. below the surface.

The "Guachimonton" consists of 3 mounds of stones & earth situated on a brick-like part of the rocky hillslope above the town of Tenchitlan   They are overgrown with small trees & bushes except when the circular area about base of each is cleared & planted to mescal. I made a rough but approximately accurate series of measurements of these mounds & surrounding woods & plot them as shown on next pages. I may add that a large excavation was made into the