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with eyes and mouth arc sometimes cut on this panel, which is ordi- 

 naril) smooth, its surface slightly convex, and often highly polished. 



dph. Decorated panel border. — The margin of the decorated 

 panel is called the panel border. In oblique ovate collars this bor- 

 der is cut in the form of a ridge looped into scrolls, often with pits re- 

 sembling eyes. In massive collars this border is sometimes pinched 

 up into three triangles. An examination of the decorated panel b< >rder 

 in several specimens of slender collars reveals a conventional face 

 with representations of ear pendants on each side. In others the face 

 and ears appear on the panel border, but arc more conventionalized. 

 The best specimens of panel border decorations are scroll figures. 



dpg. Decorated panel ridge. — A groove bounding the decorated 

 panel and separating it from the panel ridge often marks the limit 

 of the panel. In oblique ovate collars this ridge is generally pinched 

 up into an elevation at one angle of the panel, which is perforated, 

 thus forming the decorated panel border perforation. The object of 

 this perforation (dpbp) is unknown, but the care with which the 

 ridge is modified at this point indicates that it must have been an im- 

 portant one. Massive ovate collars have no perforated angle of the 

 panel. 



up. Undecorated panel. — The nndecorated panel lies between 

 the shoulder ridge and the boss ; it has a panel ridge but no decorated 

 panel border. In massive oval collars the nndecorated panel is sim- 

 ply a rough, slightly convex plane extending from one of the projec- 

 tions to the pole of the collar, the boss in this variety being' absent. 

 In many of the oblique ovate collars there is a pit ( upp) or elongated 

 shallow depression in the middle of this panel, but this is absent in 

 the massive type. The meaning of this pit is unknown, but its 

 rough surface suggests that it may have been the place of attachment 

 of an ornament like a nugget of gold or a fragment of shell. On the 

 Acosta theory that a head was formerly attached to the collar, the 

 rough surface of this panel may have been the place of union, in 

 which case the pit in the middle of the panel would serve to 

 strengthen the attachment. The undecorated panel often has a panel 

 groove (upg) and border ( upb ), but neither of these is so elaborately 

 decorated as the corresponding region of the decorated panel. The 

 rough surface of the undecorated panel is constant in all collars, indi- 

 cating that it was bidden or covered in some way. 



TRIPOINTED STONES 



Not less enigmatical than the collars are the characteristic tri- 

 pointed stones, which, like the collars, reach their highest develop- 



