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face panel is brown with no slip. It has an annular base and in shape 

 rather suggests certain of the Ulua marble bowl types, though the 

 sculptured design is Mayoid. A third fragment is the rounded 

 bottom of a bowl with intricate Mayoid design in high but rounded 

 relief. The slip was originally red but has disappeared except between 

 the raised designs, and glittering micaceous tempering material shows 

 on the surface. If it were not for Lothrop's statement (1936a, p. 142) 

 that this mold-made appearance is due to delicate carving and the 

 obscuring effect of the slip, one would be inclined to regard these as 

 stamped or molded rather than carved. The type will repay much more 

 detailed analysis than is possible here. From P 5 and 6 come three 

 small restorable pots of the imitation Ulua marble bowl type (pi. 6, 

 e, f). There are a few other sherds of this type. No slip is visible 

 on these pieces, though all are considerably eroded. The association 

 of Mayoid sculptured ware and imitation Ulua marble bowl pieces 

 in the same levels may very well be significant. 



Incensario fragments occur in every level except P i and P 7. 

 All seem to be of the usual perforated frying pan type with hollow, 

 round handles. They lack painted decoration and range from light 

 buff to brown in color. Fragments from P 2 and P 6 are very thin 

 and delicate, but a fragment from P 3 is thick and crude. Candelarios, 

 or small incense burners, occur in P 3 and P 5. All are of the un- 

 slipped, single-hole type. That from P 3 is undecorated, whereas the 

 two fragments from P 5 have crude linear incision and punctate 

 ornamentation. Cassava-grinders, or round, handled, disks of coarse 

 pottery, with one surface ridged with cross-hatched incisions like a 

 grater, occur from P 3 to P 6. They are most numerous in P 3. 

 Spindle whorls occurred only once, with burial A i in level P 4. 

 Of the three, two were plain and one had neatly incised decorations. 



Figurines and whistles occur in practically all levels. They show 

 little change in types from top to bottom. Solid, mold-made figurines 

 of Mayoid type (like fig. 7, s) occur in P 2, 5, and 6. A portion 

 of a pottery figurine mold was found in P 5. Modeled figures of thin, 

 polished, brown pottery occur from P 2 to P 7. Some of these were 

 originally rather pretentious (pi. 6, a), but nearly all are very frag- 

 mentary and their original form often cannot be determined. Besides 

 the human figurines and larger hollow statues, both solid and hollow 

 animal and bird heads occur in all levels. Many of these were probably 

 from whistles (like fig. 7, a, c, e). Similarly, many of the human 

 figures once formed parts of whistles. Strange bulbous animal forms 

 occur from P 2 to P 7. Some of these were whistles, others were not. 

 A particularly interesting whistle from P 2 is in the form of a realistic 



