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vertical bands of dark red (like fig. 27). Unlike the above, it has a 

 dimpled base and only two vertical loop handles. 



A very brief analysis of other vessels reported to be from Aguacate 

 and Aguatal, probably including some from La Ceiba as well, will 

 bring out the major types represented here. The majority of the 

 straight-walled vases from these sites bear Mayoid designs, very 

 often identical with those on similar vessels from the Ulua or Sal- 



cm. 



DULL BLACK 



RED BROWN I I DULL BUFF 



Fig. 22. — Yojoa Polychrome pot, Bold Animalistic type, Aguatal. (Specimen in 

 the National Museum of Honduras at Tegucigalpa.) 



vador regions (see pis. 12, b; 13, f, and fig. 30). Since these vases 

 are the ones mostly highly valued by collectors, they are apt to pre- 

 ponderate in purchased collections, disproportionately to their actual 

 occurrence in the field. An exceptionally fine vase of this type, said 

 to come from Aguacate, is illustrated (fig. ♦30). There are three 

 design units ; two are seated priests, and the third is a monkey shown 

 against a black medallion. The two priest designs are similar (fig. 30) 

 except that the one not illustrated holds a five-branched scepter. This 



