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and from depths that are rarely as much as 2 meters. Moreover, 

 despite the occurrence of at least two distinct major styles, the Mayoid 

 and the local Animalistic or Bold Geometric, the composition and 

 even the colors of both are similar. There is, moreover, a great over- 

 lapping of design elements. At Santa Rita (farm 17) the typical 

 Mayoid and the Bold Geometric polychrome vessels, exclusive of the 

 numerous intermediate types where they blend, seem more distinct 

 than do the two major types at Lake Yojoa. Moreover, despite the 

 great richness of color and design, the bulk of Lake Yojoa polychrome 



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RED -ORANGE 



BLACK 



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Fig. 28. — Yojoa Polychrome bowl, Mayoid type, Aguacate. (Specimen in the 

 National Museum of Honduras at Tegucigalpa.) 



pottery appears to be technically inferior to either the Mayoid or 

 the Bold Geometric ware at Santa Rita or other old polychrome sites 

 on the Ulua. Occasional Yojoa pieces, and these are the ones eagerly 

 acquired by collectors, have a fine hard paste and fast colors, but 

 for every one of these, the looters discarded or ruined hundreds of 

 pieces that were crumbly in texture, with faded or eroded paints. 

 Had the peoples of early polychrome times on the Ulua had the arche- 

 ological generosity to bury complete vessels with their dead, as did 

 their contemporaries on Lake Yojoa, this comparison would be more 

 obvious than it is at present. Analysis of paste, form, size, color, and 



