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design, and the intercorrelation of these factors in the Aguacate- 

 Aguatal collections must await future pubHcation, but the foregoing, 

 very brief, description may give some idea of their richness and the 

 manner of their occurrence insofar as the looters have not destroyed 

 all such evidence. 



cm. 



I I DULL ORANGE 



BLACK 



BUFF 



DULL BROWNISH BLACK 



RED 



Fig. 29. — Yojoa Polychrome bowl, Mayoid (?) type, Aguacate. (Specimen in 

 the National Museum of Honduras at Tegucigalpa.) 



LA CEIBA 



The first time we visited La Ceiba we walked in from Jaral by 

 the trail to Dos Caminos and came back along the lake shore (map, 

 fig. 20). The latter was an especially hard trip through the black mud 

 and dense jungle of the lake shore. It was enlivened, however, by the 

 profusion of orchids, animal tracks, and land and water birds we 



