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motifs. One applique design consists of a crude face composed of 

 three raised circles and two modeled, four-fingered hands in relief. 

 A larger sherd has a vertical handle ; both the handle and body have 

 vertical ridges enclosing punctate marks. Two sherds have small lugs 

 suggesting a degenerate version of the vertical, centrally constricted 

 type. There are five other lugs in the collection ; three are irregularly 

 modeled solid knobs, one consists of three applique circles in a group, 

 and the largest (5 cm long) is crudely modeled and hollow, with long 

 irregular slits down the side and a grotesque face at the tip. No arti- 

 facts, other than the above, were found at this site. 



The Mitchell-Hedges Collection in the Museum of the 

 American Indian, Heye Foundation 



The storage material from this collection assigned to Helena and 

 Barburata Islands has already been discussed. Before the Bay Island 

 exhibition material at that Museum is considered, the storage material 

 assigned to Bonacca must be briefly analyzed. Particularly striking 

 are five complete or only slightly broken vessels of the thin poly- 

 chrome (Polychrome I) type (fig. 37, h, c, e, f, g). I presume that 



a b c d e J S 



Fig. yj- — Outline sketch of Polychrome 1 vessels and carved steatite image 

 {]%), in the Mitchell-Hedges collection, Museum of the American Indian, Heye 

 Foundation. 



these are from the Sacrificial Spring, since nearly all but faint traces 

 of the painted design and slip have vanished, evidently as a result of 

 long soaking in water. At present they are all a rather uniform 

 mottled gray or dull gray-brown color. From the traces of design 

 still visible, the nature of the paste, the type of lugs, and the fact that 

 there are two vessels without paint but otherwise almost identical 

 with our Dixon site ofi^ertory vessel (pi. i), there seems to be no 

 doubt that they belong to the Polychrome I ware. This is highly im- 

 portant, since it throws light on many of the shai>es characteristic of 

 the type. One slightly broken jar has a white slip, a black line design, 

 and iguana head lugs (fig. 37, /). There are a number of Poly- 

 chrome I sherds that may have come from other sites on the island, 

 since the paint is intact. These present many of the Polychrome I 



