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vases or jars, with or without tripod feet ; second, tripod dishes ; third, 

 open bowls with dimpled bases ; fourth, two-handled pots with dimpled 

 bases ; and, fifth, bichrome or monochrome pots with direct or slightly 

 flaring rims and two or four vertical handles. The finest of the first 

 type is a vertical-walled vase with three slightly hollow, low, cylindri- 

 cal feet. In form and coloring it is almost identical with one illustrated 

 (pi. i). It has the identical step and scroll design pattern on the lip, 

 but the body design consists of two pairs of interlocked horned or 



cm. 



DULL ORANGE 



"M DARK DULL ORANGE 



DARK RED 



Fig. 21. — Yojoa Polychrome bowl, Bold Animalistic type, Aguacate. (Specimen 

 in the National Museum of Honduras at Tegucigalpa.) 



plumed serpents with spearlike flames coming from their nostrils 

 (similar to pi. 13, cf). A low, flat-bottomed vase with thickened lips 

 and paneled walls is too badly eroded to make out the design. A third 

 piece of this general type has slighty flaring, straight walls and a 

 dimpled base. Around the neck is a band of skeuomorphic glyphs, 

 dark red and black on an orange background. On the orange body 

 of the vessel there are two conventionalized parrots in dark red and 

 black. Tripod dishes, the second type, are here represented by only 

 one example (pi. 14, c). This is of medium size with hollow, cylindri- 



