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definitely Mayoid in form and decoration, this accompanying vessel 

 is indubitably Bold Animalistic in type. The incensario (Strong, 1937, 

 fig. 75, upper) is very crudely made of coarse buff pottery with dull 

 red bands around handle and rim. From their distribution it would 

 seem that these vessels had been laid around a skeleton, all traces of 

 which had disappeared. 



Pottery deposit, or grave, 2 occurred in our cross trench near the 

 center of the mound at a depth of only 15 centimeters. It consisted 

 of two vessels upright and side by side. The larger of these (pi. 13, a) 

 has a bright buff' slip with geometric designs in black, dark red, and 

 bright red on neck, body, and handles. On the central body it has 

 an extremely conventionalized monkey face with a miniature body. 

 It is an unusually conventionalized piece of the local Lake Yojoa 

 Bold Animalistic style. The second vessel is smaller with swollen 

 body, slightly flaring neck, two vertical strap handles, and a small, 

 cross-incised node on each side of its greatest diameter. It is one- 

 color bright red and, like its companion piece, very fresh in appear- 

 ance. Both vessels have dimpled ba.ses. The larger pot contained one 

 small ovoid bead of grayish jadeite or diorite, and the smaller pot a 

 larger, cylindrical bead of greenish gray jadeite. The latter bead has 

 a groove around one end and both have complete biconodont perfora- 

 tions. The shallowness of the deposit may indicate relative recency 

 and the extremely conventionalized type of Bold Animalistic design 

 on the larger vessel appears to be late (pi. 13, a). The fact that 

 each vessel contained a stone bead suggests deposition with the dead, 

 although here again all trace of human remains had disappeared. 



One meter east of deposit 2 in the cross trench, at a depth of 35 

 centimeters, there occurred two restorable little jars of chocolate- 

 brown ware in close association with a larger restorable pot (pottery 

 deposit 3). One of these little straight-walled jars has three low tripod 

 feet and is decorated with an incised diamond and dot design. The 

 other is flat-bottomed, has two vertical lugs and a carved or sculptured 

 design in low relief. The lugs and form strongly suggest the small 

 pottery imitations of Ulua marble bowls, but the partially restored 

 sculptured design seems more Mayoid. The other small jar also sug- 

 gests the imitation Ulua marble bowl type (similar to pi. 14, e). The 

 third restorable vessel is a typical, two-handled, local Bold Animalistic 

 pot with a striking, heavy black and red monkey design (similar to pi. 

 13, c, and fig. 22). The broken condition of these vessels makes it 

 uncertain whether or not they represent a grave offering. However 

 the association of types at this depth is interesting. 



