ILLUSTRATIONS 

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1. (Frontispiece) Processional figures on a Yojoa Polychrome vase of 



Mayoid type, site 2, La Ceiba title 



2. Various Chamelecon and Ulua River sites 130 



3. Naco sherds 



4. Naco sherds and artifacts 



5. Upper Ulua Polychrome pottery types, Las Flores 



6. Upper Ulua Polychrome pottery types. Las Flores 



7. Ulua Polychrome, Bold Geometric pottery types, Santa Rita and Naranjo 



Chino 



8. Ulua Polychrome, Mayoid pottery types, Santa Rita 



9. Ulua Bichrome sherds, from deepest level at Santa Rita 



ID. Playa de los Muertos Bichrome sherds 



1 1. Playa de los Muertos Bichrome sherds and figurines 



12. Yojoa Polychrome vessels, Mayoid types 



13. Yojoa Polychrome vessels. Bold Animalistic and other types 



14. Yojoa Polychrome vessels. Bold Animalistic and other types 



15. Early ceramic types at Lake Yojoa 



16. Los Naranjos, Lake Yojoa 



TEXT FIGURES 



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1. Map of northwestern Honduras 4 



2. Map of the region around Naco 7 



3. Sketch map of the ruins of Naco 30 



4. North wall of cross-section trench through mound 3, Naco 31 



5. Map of the lower Ulua and Chamelecon Rivers 40 



6. West wall of excavation i, Santa Rita (farm 17) 47 



7. Hollow figurines, whistles, and " candelario ", from the Ulua Poly- 



chrome period, Santa Rita (farm 17) 52 



8. Ulua Polychrome, Bold Geometric tripod dish, excavation 2, Santa Rita 



(farm 17) 54 



9. Unusual Ulua Polychrome, Bold Geometric dish, excavation 2, Santa 



Rita (farm 17) 55 



10. Ulua Polychrome, Bold Geometric bowl, excavation 2, Santa Rita 



(farm 17) • • • • 56 



1 1. Ulua Polychrome bowl, excavation 2, Santa Rita (farm 17) 57 



12. Ulua Polychrome bowl, excavation 2, Santa Rita (farm 17) 58 



13. Ulua Polychrome, Mayoid vase, excavation 2, Santa Rita (farm 17) ■ • • 59 



14. Inside design from Ulua Polychrome, Lower Mayoid vases (pi. 8, a, b), 



excavation i, Santa Rita (farm 17) 60 



15. Ulua Polychrome Bowl, excavation 2, Santa Rita (farm 17) 61 



16. North wall of excavation i, showing stratification, Playa de los Muertos 



(farm 11) 64 



