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Candelarios are lacking in levels A. In B two were recovered, 

 one decorated by an incised bird (compare fig. 7, ;") and one with 

 incised lines. Both are of the single-hole variety. Levels C yielded 

 one two-hole candelario decorated with a delicate incised pattern. Six 

 candelario fragments came from D, one plain two-hole type and five 

 single-hole specimens. One of the latter was decorated with a nicely 

 executed textile design unit. There were no fragmentary cassava- 

 grinders from levels A, but B yielded one, C five, and D seven. One 

 of the latter is almost restorable. Like the others, it was of coarse gray 

 pottery, round, with a broken strap handle on the rear and a series 



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DULL ORANGE 



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

 Rita (farm 17). (Specimen m National Museum of Honduras at Teguci- 

 galpa.) 



of very rough-edged incisions or graters on the face. Only one plain, 

 biconical, pottery spindle whorl was recovered. It came from levels D. 

 Figurines and whistle fragments were, rather strangely, completely 

 lacking in levels A and D, at excavation i, though they were fairly 

 abundant in the two middle horizons, B and C. Excavation 2 yielded 

 the finest assortment of such modeled pieces, and certain of these, now 

 in the National Museum of Honduras, are reproduced here from our 

 field sketches and photographs (fig. 7). All of these came from the 

 polychrome horizon between pottery levels 8 and 11 in excavation 2, 

 but, in general, are similar to the fragmentary pieces from levels B 

 and C in excavation i . The latter types show no obvious stratigraphic 

 differences ; fragments of large ornate busts and statues of polished 

 brown pottery (like pi. 6, a) ; solid, mold-made figurines of Mayoid 



