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type (like fig. y, s) ; hollow faces with beards or ornate head dresses 

 (like fig. 7, ni), bulbous human, animal or composite figures (like 

 fig. 7, h, r), tubular birds (fig. 7, e), howling dogs, (fig. 7, c), and 



^J DARK RED I I DULL ORANGE Jj/^ BLACK 



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

 (farm 17). (Specimen in National Museum of Honduras at Tegucigalpa.) 



a variety of squatting animals (like fig. 7, a, k, p) all occurred in both 

 horizons. Some of the smaller human figures were once attached 

 to whistles, but many are simply figurines, or ornate hollow statutes 

 whose functions remain conjectural. Only a few exceptional pieces 



