CACHE OF NINE
MAYAN ECCENTRICS
MAYA CULTURE
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   This group of nine eccentrics is reported to have

been one cache. No two are alike and note that three

of them are perforated. The holes may have been

started from natural crystal cavities. All of them are

made form the same red translucent stone. This
material is most probably chalcedony. Shafer (1983:219)

describes it as "a somewhat coarser (as opposed to cherts)

crypto-crystalline material which occurs in translucent

or semi-translucent nodules." He goes on to say "The

nodular formation is different from that of the cherts,

and the cortex is a lacelike white hydrated surface."

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