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dull orang-e open bowl with a simple geometric design in red around 

 the neck. It is chiefly remarkable because it has wavy, vertical lines 

 down the body that appeared to have been executed in negative paint- 

 ing. Actually, these seem to have been formed by the disappearance 

 of the dark red paint that once covered them, A particularly inter- 

 esting little tripod vase came from a depth of 1.65 meters. Like the 

 above, it was in an upright position. This vessel has a light orange slip, 

 two broad black lines inside and below the lip and, on the outer wall, 

 three prancing jaguars with raised heads and open mouths, vividly 

 executed in purplish red and black. A black and red geometric panel 

 separates the three identical figures (the design on pi. 12, d, is similar 

 but less realistic) . Among the many sherds from about the depth of 

 I meter we found enough fragments to restore an interesting bowl 

 representing a bird with head, wings, and tail projecting (similar to 

 but more elaborate than pi. 14, h). The basic color is light orange, 

 and the rim, lip, bird head and tail, as well as the median portion, 

 have dark brown, dark red, and white designs. All but the first of 

 these vessels were broken when found, and only two were upright. 

 It is possible that they had been placed with burials, the bones of which 

 had disappeared, but it seems more probable that they had been dis- 

 carded with the abundant sherds and other broken artifacts. Two 

 more partially complete vessels were so soft that they crumbled to 

 bits when we tried to remove them. 



Sherds were more abundant in mound 2 and of better quality. 

 Cooking ware was abundant and similar to that in mound i, but there 

 were also present a large number of fragments from large, straight- 

 walled vases of Mayoid type. The majority of these had heavy dark 

 red and black designs on buf¥' or orange, with hollow rectangular or 

 cylindrical tripod feet. A rim with a painted twilled basketry design 

 and several with typical Ulua conventionalized heads (on thin, hard, 

 polished ware) occur. Skeuomorphic glyph bands also occur, and 

 there is one painted " bird " head lug. A number of excellently painted 

 tripod dish fragments and a number of very large dark red sherds 

 with typical Ulua Bold Geometric designs are noteworthy. These 

 include two broad straphandles with monkey face lugs. Two figurine 

 heads were encountered at a depth of 1.20 meters. One of these is 

 solid, suggesting a pouting " baby face " with hair but no head dress ; 

 the other is hollow with an elaborate head dress, having a raised St, 

 Andrew's cross above the forehead. Both are rather badly eroded. 

 A few roller pestles, cylindrical manos, double-ended hammerstones, 

 two crude obsidian side scrapers, one quartzite side scraper, and a 

 few broken prismatic flakes of obsidian complete the artifact list. The 



