One basin of fine gold, twelve inches in diameter with shallow rounding bottom. About a pound in weight.
Four other basins, bowls or cups, smaller in size, uncarved, but of massive material and very artistic in contour.
None of the above basins were twisted, cut or broken.
Seven gold disks, embossed or beaten, about ten inches in diameter.
Eight gold disks, embossed or beaten, about eight inches in diameter.
Seventeen gold disks, embossed or beaten, about six inches in diameter.
Ten gold disks, embossed or beaten, small sizes.
One handsome penache, forehead band or tiara, over eight inches long by four inches wide, of beautiful openwork, the design being entwined serpents with plumed head-dress.
This is the finest piece of gold work ever found in the Maya area.
Eleven reptile and animal figures, probably brooches and similar ornaments; all massive gold and finely worked. Frogs, bat-like figures and monkey-like objects, most of them cast (not beaten work), massive and of pure gold.
Fourteen small gold objects shaped like candlesticks.
Ten human or monkey-like figures of gold.
Twenty gold rings, mostly of thin but pure gold.
Sixty other objects of unknown use but of gold material.
One hundred bells of various sizes but all gold, even to the clappers.
Forty other unclassified objects, either of pure gold or of gold and bronze; sandals, disks, ferrule-like objects, pieces and strips evidently portions of shields and regalia ornaments.
Forty gold washers or scales, one and a quarter inches in diameter, with holes in the center.
One solid-gold mask seven inches in diameter, the eyes closed as if in sleep or in death and over the right eyelid the same kind of slanting cross that we often see carved on the so-called elephants’ trunks.
One gold hul-che (throwing-stick) of entwined serpents.
Seven jade plaques or tablets, broken but restored, three inches by four inches.
Nine jade tablets, two inches by four inches by one quarter inch thick. The jade tablets were evidently broken intentionally before being thrown into the well.
One hundred sixty beautifully carved large jade beads and pendants of large size, virtually perfect.
Seventy carved jade ear-ornaments, nose- and labret ornaments, from two inches in diameter down to one half inch, all finely cut and polished.
Fourteen jade globes, one and a half inches in diameter, all very finely polished and several finely carved with well-executed figures and other designs.
One small but very finely worked and polished jade figurine, four inches wide and four inches high. It represents a seated figure of the Palenquin type with elaborate head-dress. It is perfect and is one of the finest, if not the finest figure found in the Maya area.
Many hundreds of small jade beads of all sizes and shapes, all polished; many of them artistically carved and shaped.
One flint-bladed sacrificial knife with the handle formed of golden entwined serpents. It is the only perfect one taken from the Sacred Well and probably the only authentic and perfect knife of this kind in any museum on the American continents. At least it is the only one in the Peabody Museum.
Several parts of other knives, such as handles, flint blades, etc.
Many beautiful flint spear-heads worth many times their weight in gold, worked down to the thickness of a steel spear-head with edges as sharp as a razor, the finest ever found anywhere in the world.
A thousand other articles of great value to archæology.