Note 57 — DESCRIPTION OF MOUNDS (continued 2)

This white lime wash, applied evenly to the entire surface, over which other colors were afterward painted, seems to have been used on all the more elaborate incensarios and on nearly all the clay figurines. It is still employed by the modern Lacandones in the manufacture of their braseros. (See Tozzer, A comparative Study of the Mayas and the Lacandones, p. 109.)