Relics From Costa Rica

Thoconsulate of Costa Rica in Philadelphia has iu its charge a unique collection of Costa Rican archseological material of great scientific value from Santa Cruz. It is composed of over 3, 000 Btone objects and of over 400 cerainics, of which 50 per cent is broken. There is also iucluded a number of gold idols, jewels, ornamenta and grindiug stoiies. The Costa Rican archseology is the link connecting the ancient specimens formed in the other states of Central America and the disooveries made in South America and presents well defined traces of two distinctcivilizations, oue descending north by the Pacific coast and the other immigrating from the opposite direction on the Atlantic side, spreacling out toward the interior of the central plateau, whero it comes in contact with the other. The flrst is typified by the ancient chorotega.