NO. I HONDURAS STRONG, KIDDER, AND PAUL 83 



cal legs containing rattles. The body color is dark orange with panels 

 of geometric and conventional designs in red and black. 



The third type, bowls with dimpled bases, includes five vessels ; 

 the finest of these is of thin ware with a light orange background and 

 elaborate design in dark red and black on the outside. Around the 

 neck is a series of plumed Mayoid faces conventionally but exquisitely 

 executed ; these are identical with those on a very similar vessel from 

 Aguatal (pi. 12, c). The body has complex, human figures in the 

 same elaborate style, but erosion prevents a clear understanding of 

 the design. A smaller thicker bowl with a buff background has purple 

 around the lips and on the body, enclosing buff circles in which are 

 crude, conventionalized Mayoid faces. Around the neck is a buff 

 band with black, skeuomorphic glyphs. A heavy bowl has a white slip 

 with massive, dark red, dull orange and black panels, bands, and 

 designs. On the sides are two heavy monkeys squatting in profile. 

 One has a forward-sweeping plume similar to those on the priestly 

 figures, the other has a backward-sweeping plume and a long tongue. 

 A thick but well-executed bowl is light orange with dark orange and 

 black designs. On the rim, these are geometric, but in two circular 

 areas on the side are ornate birds, evidently the Muscovy duck, with 

 strange, wrapped objects on their backs. The last open bowl is light 

 orange with two extremely ornate black a:nd purple birds. It has iso- 

 lated black stepped scrolls outside the lip (like pi. i). 



There are two vessels of the fourth type, i. e., bowls with two verti- 

 cal strap handles and dimpled bottoms. One of these is light orange 

 with a low straight neck and black and red geometric designs. On the 

 sides these form two highly conventionalized monkeys whose raised 

 faces with indented eyes project like lugs (compare fig. 22 and pi. 

 13. c). 



The second vessel of this type has a low neck and more swollen 

 body (like fig. 26). It is orange in color with a band of red and black 

 geometric designs around the neck, a band of curvilinear designs 

 around the shoulders, and three ornate concentric diamond designs 

 down the body (fig. 26 had similar but more elaborate designs). 



The three vessels of the fifth type, monochrome or bichrome pots 

 with direct or slightly flaring rims and two or four vertical handles, 

 suggest domestic or cooking ware. The largest of these has a round 

 bottom, low lip, and four solid, vertical, loop handles. It is a dull, 

 slightly polished red with smoke stains on the bottom. A smaller but 

 heavier vessel is similar as to handles and base. It is lower, however, 

 is dark red, and has more polish. The third vessel is dull buff with 



