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way at Tiahuanaco. The angularity so noticeable in the art of 

 this period at Tiahuanaco itself is here preserved to a consid- 

 erable degree. Between the two bird-heads and around each of 

 them is a frame or border adorned with repetitions of the 17 " 

 sign. Although the Plate in question is not in color, several 

 tints are indicated. Again, Baessler, Plate 144, Figure 403, 

 shows a wonderful specimen of coast Tiahuanaco II art. It is 

 a goblet from Pachamac adorned with a very beautiful design. 

 The colors are cream, purple, gray, brown, red and black. The 

 finish is lustrous and the arrangement of the color-areas is mas- 

 terly. The decoration resolves itself into several bands. At 

 the top is a band of the stair-sign motif ; it is gray with purple 

 borders. Attached to the outer edge of the borders are a num- 

 ber of conventionalized puma-heads in purple. They are remin- 

 iscent of those on the monolithic gateway. Those on the top 

 of the band face to the reader's right; the ones at the bottom 

 face to the left. On the gray central stripe of the stair-sign 

 band are a number of conventionalized three-digit bands in black 

 and gray alternated with similar feet in brown, cream and black. 

 Below this band of decoration comes a narrower one made up of 

 nr signs in red on a cream ground. Below that, in turn, 

 comes a wide band of black on which is painted an almost 

 bilaterally symmetrical square-headed Weeping God. A slight 

 difference in the two ends of his mouth is the sole exception to 

 symmetry. His eyes are in cream and black and, like those 

 of the Weeping God on the monolithic gateway, are large 

 and round with a band of "tears" running down from 

 each of them. The face is red, the nose, gray in color, is 

 broad and squarish like that of the Weeping God at Tia- 

 huanaco. His gray lips form a rectangular mouth contain- 

 ing three groups of rectangular teeth and two groups of fangs, 

 the order being, from left to right, teeth-fangs-teeth-fangs- 

 teeth. The teeth are cream-colored. Finally, at the bottom of 

 the design, comes a band containing twelve oblong rectangles on 

 each of which are two small disks of color with a dot in the 

 center. These rectangles are arranged in double file, six in a 

 row. They are arranged in the manner here approximately indi- 

 cated, and they may be said to be a sort of study in color-arrange- 

 ment. Numbers i, 3, 5, 8, 10 and 12 are red with cream disks; 

 2 is cream with purple disks ; 4, 9 and 1 1 are gray with red. 



