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31). Below the house floors, or occupation levels, we encountered 

 several burials (see P 2, fig. 31) of the polychrome period. For the 

 present we will confine ourselves to a brief discussion of features and 

 artifacts from this upper or polychrome level, later discussing the 

 materials below the sterile stratum. All vessels and important arti- 

 facts were photographed hi situ, but these, like our complete cross- 

 sections and ground plans, cannot be presented here. 



At the extreme south end of the main trench, at a depth of 94 

 centimeters, we found a small orange bowl decorated with crude red 

 alligators and black scrolls. It was tipped on one side. No bones 

 were present. A deposit of three vessels occurred near the north 

 end of the main trench at a depth of i meter. There were two super- 

 imposed bowls, one with a cream-white slip on which were three dark 

 red and orange designs of Mayoid type, probably conventionalized 

 serpents' heads ; the other was orange with a much conventionalized, 

 seated Mayoid figure. These two bowls were inverted. Next to them 

 was an upright, small, but striking, efligy bowl, modeled to represent 

 a frog. It was brown and unslipped. This was probably a grave, 

 occurring at the base of a refuse heap. However, no bone was found. 

 About 2.50 meters from the south end of the trench near the west 

 wall, at a depth of 1.45 meters, we found an interesting upright bowl 

 (pi. 14, d). This was small but of the typical Santa Rita Bold Geo- 

 metric olla shape and color (compare pi. 14, d, and pi. 7, a). The 

 present vessel has the same light orange slip, with similar red semi- 

 circles inside the lips as do the monkey-handled ollas, but the geo- 

 metric and conventionalized designs are in dull red with no black. 

 The base has the marked dimple, and the handles have the lugs of the 

 Ulua Bold Geometric olla type. 



Slightly north of this pot, at the junction of one of the western 

 cross trenches, five vessels were uncovered at depths of from i to 

 1.45 meters. This immediate area had been badly disturbed by arma- 

 dillo burrowings (see grave P 2, fig. 30, and pi. 16, fig. 5), but all 

 the vessels were evidently part of one grave ofifering. In between them 

 were found a few small, crumbling fragments of human bone and 

 three caps from human molar teeth, thus proving for the first time 

 the presence of a burial. As can be seen from the photograph (pi. 

 16, fig, 5) and diagram (fig. 30) this burial occurred under the 

 southern edge of a house floor. Only one vessel shows in the cross- 

 section diagram, the others being just east of the trench wall. This 

 bowl was inverted. It was fluted and had a splotchy, light orange 

 slip, with crude red linear and geometric designs. On the inside a 

 slightly darker orange wash has been added, leaving thin vertical 



