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The material segregated from the lowest level in excavation 2 con- 

 tains fragments of all these types and establishes the uniformity of 

 the deposit. The domestic ware is identical, numerous pieces having 

 blotchy dull red or brown designs. One well-polished sherd has a 

 flange outside the neck with a dull red criss-cross design extending 

 from flange to body. One sherd represents the Las Flores type painted 

 and incised vertical vase. There are several small bowl fragments with 

 conventionalized Mayoid and geometric designs, and one typical Bold 

 Geometric swollen bowl fragment. A sample gathered from the sur- 

 face of the borrow-pit is similar but contains several " Mayoid " verti- 

 cal vase fragments rather suggesting the Bay Island Polychrome I 

 type (Strong, 1935, pi. 21 and fig. 21). A portion of a very small 

 tripod vase with red slip and black line decoration has an outer wall 

 panel with excellently sculptured Mayoid faces in profile. In general, 

 all the material from excavation 2, Playa de los Muertos, agrees very 

 closely with that from excavation 2, Las Flores, and with pottery 

 levels A and B in excavation i, Santa Rita. 



Returning to excavation i at Playa de los Muertos, we will first 

 consider the material from P i, the upper or polychrome horizon 

 (fig. 16). The fairly abundant domestic ware is identical with that 

 just described at excavation 2. Two restorable vessels of this type 

 accompanied the two burials in the lower portion of P I (fig. 16). 

 That with skeleton i is a round-bottomed pot with a low flaring rim 

 and two vertical round handles. It is of coarse brown, unslipped ware 

 with triangular incised designs over the lower neck and upper body. 

 The vessel with skeleton 2 is a polished black vessel with a direct 

 rim and three small solid legs. In direct association with the coarser 

 ware throughout P i, polychrome sherds occurred. The majority of 

 these are small and some of them are eroded, but their type is definite. 

 The majority come from small bowls with a red or orange slip. The 

 lips of these sherds are painted red or black and similar linear designs 

 occur on the body of the vessels. Ten small sherds are colored buff 

 to orange and have remnants of complex red and black designs. Two 

 orange sherds with red lines and large dots suggest the Bold Geometric 

 ware. Two polychrome sherds are from flat bottoms, and one is a 

 rounded flat bottom. One large, hollow, cylindrical leg with an orange 

 slip and red and black designs is from a tripod dish. The leg has a 

 vertical perforation in the lower portion and holes in the part joining 

 the body. It originally contained a rattle. This type of vessel (compare 

 pi. 7, e, f) was lacking in excavation 2. The only other artifact en- 

 countered was a fragmentary prismatic flake of obsidian. Although 



