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this general region is exceptional. Manos are usually of greater length 

 than the grinding plate. Carved jade and green stone ornaments are 

 common, and anthropomorphic celt-shaped amulets (like pi. 12, e) 

 are extremely abundant. Small effigies, labrets, and long tubular 

 beads of jade or green stone are common. Circular slate disks with 

 central and marginal perforations, rectangular stone gorgets, and 

 stone ear spools (like pi. 17, h) occur. Stone mace heads are very 

 common, and some of these are very complex, others simple. Hartman 

 (1907 a, pi. 31, fig. a) shows a mace head almost identical with the 

 mammiform specimen from the Dixon site on Roatan (pi. 19, fig.i, c). 

 Star-headed types also occur in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Atlatl 

 pegs (similar to pi. 11, /) are very characteristic. A long-handled 

 round Imrk beater and a discoidal grooved form both occur. A special- 

 ized stirrup-shaped rubbing stone is rather unique. T-shaped chipped 

 axes and numerous variants of this type occur. Hartman (1907 a) 

 shows both ovoid and petaloid polished celts. The double-bitted 

 stone ax is another specialized type. Gold ornaments are rather rare 

 and, when found, are often of Chiriqui types. As Lehmann (1910) 

 points out, the range of gold and jade here seem to be rather mutually 

 exclusive. Copper work is apparently rare or lacking. 



The ceramics of the Pacific region have been exhaustively analyzed 

 by Lothrop, but it is impossible to go into any detail here. All that 

 can l3e said is that the Bay Island Polychrome I ware shares charac- 

 teristic forms, colors, and many of its design motives with the Nicoya 

 Polychrome ware which centers in the Pacific region. Bay Island 

 Polychrome I ware shares numerous details of form and decoration 

 with certain Uloa polychrome types and is also similar to Nicoya 

 Polychrome. Until sufficient Uloa polychrome pieces are on record 

 for visual comparison, the strongest affiliations of Bay Island Poly- 

 chrome I must be in doubt. Although there are numerous and strik- 

 ing resemblances to certain of the Pacific intermediate wares, and 

 especially to the monochrome types, the Bay Island monochrome ware 

 as a rule finds closer affinities in the Highland monochrome pottery. 

 Pottery whistles and painted figurines from the Pacific region are 

 generally better made than the monochrome examples from the Bay 

 Islands. Certain figurines seated on stools, and various crude or 

 grotesque monochrome figurines, especially those from Zapatero 

 Island, are fairly close to those from the Bay Islands (see Lothrop, 

 1926, vol. 2, fig. 165 and pi. 132, c, d). Cylindrical pottery stamps 

 and pottery labrets (like those of shell, pi. 15, h-ni) resemble Bay 

 Island forms. 



