NO. 14 ARCHEOLOGY OF BAY ISLANDS, HONDURAS STRONG II3 



In general, the foregoing description of the red monochrome pot- 

 tery at site I would apply equally well to the mass of pottery at site 2, 

 with the exception that highly polished, incised and modeled types are 

 much more abundant at the former site. At both sites occur very 

 large sherds of coarse red ware from pots, possibly burial urns, which 

 must have been at least i meter in height and nearly as much in 

 diameter. These are tempered with broken-up coral rock. The two 

 complete pots present little that is new; one is a small offertory 

 model of a larger pear-shaped vessel with a thick annular base (pi. 

 31, a), and the other is a crudely modeled and ijicised cooking pot 

 with smoke stains on the outer surface (pi. 31, b). Both these pieces 

 and the majority of the sherds show definite traces of having been 

 built up by the coiling method. In the case of the cooking pot the 

 neck has been made separately and attached to the body, and the same 

 is true of another detached neck in the present collection. A very 

 small model pot with a broken rim is extremely thick and crudely 

 modeled and incised. A particularly fine vessel is represented by a 

 fragment with one attached leg (pi. 30, c). The leg terminates in a 

 heavy foot suggesting that of a tapir, and the graceful bowl is highly 

 polished and pleasingly incised. Other well-polished and neatly incised 

 rim sherds (pi. 30, o-c) are apparently from open bowls or from 

 pots with vertical necks. Pottery with crude incisions and small 

 modeled lugs (pi. 30, /) is also rather abundant. Separate lugs at 

 site 2 are not as abundant as at site i, nor do they seem to be as 

 elaborate in modeling and decoration. The most elaborate in the 

 present collection is a large but typical applique rider lug, similar to 

 those from site i (compare pi. 23, b). It shows no trace of a slip and 

 is gritty in texture and bufif in color. Since this form of lug occurs 

 on Polychrome I pottery, this one specimen is the only approach to 

 that ware noted at site 2. However, it will be remembered, that at 

 site I the applique rider lug type occurs more commonly on the mono- 

 chrome ware than it does on the polychrome type. The three other 

 lugs at hand, and those noted at the site, offer no radical departure 

 from the more simple monochrome lugs described at site i. The very 

 characteristic, double-ended vertical lugs with grotesque modeling 

 (fig. 26) seem to be lacking at site 2, and even the simpler, attached 

 head or body lugs are not at all common. Decorated feet for mono- 

 chrome ware vessels, although not abundant at site 2, are present and 

 in type and elaboration are similar to those at site i. In the collection 

 selected at site 2 are six feet. The one illustrated (pi. 30, e) is 



