CULTURE OF PEOPLE OF SOUTHEASTERN PANAMA 69 



tions whereby the work of the coast Tule may be differentiated from 

 that of the interior Cuna tribes. 



A two-handled pot, "tsiya nala" (Tule), 9 cm. (3.5 in.) in height 

 and 10 cm. (3.9 in.) wide at the marginal flare, with annular foot, 

 and luted handles of looped coils of clay paste, each of whose points 

 of attachment are at the marginal flare and greatest median surface 

 convexity (Cat. No. 327362, U.S.N.M.; pi. 15, No. 2), is characteristic 

 of Tule and Cuna ware. A provision found otherwise only in the 

 stove-censers consists of a series of four narrow oblong draft per- 

 forations immediately outside the place of juncture of the globose 

 bowl and annular foot, with another larger circular perforation 

 through the foot at the center. A coiled bast fiber handle from one 

 handle loop to the other allows the hanging up of the vessel under 

 the house roof as a censer or its being carried in the hand. 



Gray ware. — The light gray pottery of the Mountain Cuna is 

 uniformly more crudely made and of an inferior paste. This is 

 illustrated by a cooking pot of the Cunas Bravos of the Sucubti 

 village in the Sucubti River Valley (Cat. No. 327329, U.S.N.M.; 

 pi. 15, No. 3), 12.8 cm. (5 in.) wide and 8.4 (3.3 in.) in height. This 

 vessel differs essentially from the domestic pottery vessels of the 

 Cuna in the absence of handles and in the truncated conical base. 

 The characteristic visible coilwork at the constricted neck orifice 

 with the finger imprints are clearly shown. Elsewhere the lines of 

 juncture are obliterated and smoothed over. 



A cooking pot from the vicinity of Caledonia Bay (Cat. No. 

 327330, U.S.N.M.: pi. 15, No. 4), is 9.5 cm. (3.7 in.) in height and 

 11.5 cm. (4.5 in) wide at the margin. The conical foot is shaped 

 in the hand of the potter from one lump of clay ; the walls and flar- 

 ing margin above the constricted neck orifice are made of coiled 

 strips. The marginal coil retains the finger imprints of the potter; 

 it also shows the manner in which it has been built up on the out- 

 side of the coil situated just below. The cracked surface at this 

 point shows how far the firing has penetrated by revealing the coarse 

 granular texture of the unfired inner core as contrasted with the 

 smoke blackened surface. The conical foot resembles the Algonkian 

 jar of the Atlantic coast. Although this vessel resembles the Cuna 

 ware of the interior, the general color effect of San Bias coast ware is 

 red or terra cotta, the paste burning rather evenly. Burnishing is not 

 practised on the common ware, but is found on water canteens and 

 stove-censers. A slip is used whenever the ware is to be burnished, 

 both on the inner and the outer surfaces. 



Bowls. — The almost universal globose and hemispherical bowl 

 which marks the effort of the primitive and early potter is of gen- 

 eral use in Darien. One is agreeably struck with the variety of 

 ideas and composition of these bowls. The imitation of natural 



