In the old romantic filibuster days Nicaraguan archaeology had its place in the sun. Squier, Belt, Pirn, Bransford, Bovallius—these are a few of the authors whose works are garnished with fantastic reproductions of Chorotegan sculptures such as snakes, crocodiles and jaguars which hang down the backs of men and women, their monstrous mouths often enclosing the human heads. At that time some of the pottery was also illustrated but there was nothing to equal the vivid drawings in color by David Sequeira in his current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. “Sweet are the uses of adversity.” It was the depression which drove Sequeira temporarily out of music and into archaeology and it was the depression also which compelled him to transfer his findings to paper and leave his precious clay specimens in storage. For several years he excavated Indian graves on the islands of Zapatera, Ometepe and Solentiname in Lake Nicaragua, as well as on the mainland in the vicinity of Masaya, Juigalpa and in the open upland region of Chontales. The specimens he found are nearly all products of the Chorotegan school of art.