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type of pot from Aguacate is decorated with intricate dark purple 

 designs on orange. One such vessel has a panel of isolated orange heads 

 on purple around the shoulder and an intricate purple " mask " de- 

 sign on the lower body and neck. The two lower design areas are 

 separated by an ornate concentric diamond design. Figure 26 from 

 Aguacate had a very similar design and shape except for the rather 

 unusual but significant vestigial spout. Another vessel form, the an- 



cm. 



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DULL BUFF 



DULL RED 



Fig. 27. — Yojoa Polychrome cooking pot, Aguatal. (Specimen in the National 

 Museum of Honduras at Tegucigalpa.) 



nular-based " salad bowl " type (pi. 14, g), also occurs at Aguacate. 

 Cooking pots of dull bufif color with vertical dull red stripes and two 

 handles (fig. 27) and four-handled, polished red pots are far more 

 common at Aguacate than any of the selected collections would indi- 

 cate, for the looters usually throw these away. 



No brief description can do justice to the diversity of Aguacate, 

 Aguatal, and other Yojoa polychrome forms and decorative elements, 

 yet it must be remembered that all of these come from the same sites 



