NO. I HONDURAS — STRONG, KIDDER, AND PAUL lOQ 



stripes of the lighter slip, thus suggesting negative painting. The bowl 

 is blackened by fire on one side of the bottom, suggesting that, despite 

 its thinness and fine, hard paste, it might have been used for cooking. 

 Just east of this vessel, at a depth of i meter, was a crumbly red bowl 

 containing a fragile little tripod vase with black and red decorations. 

 Both these vessels, despite our greatest care, crumbled into tiny frag- 

 ments when removed. At a depth of 1.45 meters, 30 centimeters to the 

 south of these, was an upright incensario containing a considerable 

 amount of charcoal. It had nine perforations and a solid, rectangular 

 handle which had been completely hollowed out from the top. The 

 incensario had a dirty, cream-colored slip, with both upper and lower 

 edges outlined in red. The fifth bowl (pi. 13, b) was slightly to the 

 north, at a depth of 1.45 meters, in an upright position. It has an 

 orange slip, with a band of white below the rim and three white 

 bands down the sides, dividing the outer surfaces into three panels 

 (pi. 13, b). On the white bands are unusual geometric and curvilinear 

 designs in dark red and, on the sides, orange. In each of the three 

 panels occurs a most interesting prancing monkey, done in dark red. 

 The bottom of the bowl is flat. 



In the south wall of the southerly, east to west extension trench, 

 at a depth of 64 centimeters, was an upright, two-handled, cooking 

 pot, 22 centimeters high and of a dull yellow color. Inside this large 

 vessel was an inverted polychrome bowl with a yellow slip, a row of 

 red conventionalized Mayoid designs outside the lip, and three big 

 black circles on the sides. The designs were badly eroded, but the 

 bowl was intact. The outer vessel barely held together while being 

 uncovered and photographed, but the moment we touched it, to re- 

 move it, it fell into over a hundred small pieces. Close to these two 

 vessels was a dull cylindrical stone bead. On the north wall of the 

 other extension trench, 1.25 meters deep, occurred a small open bowl 

 of rough gray unslipped ware. At a depth of about i meter, near 

 the west wall of the main trench, we found restorable fragments of 

 a vertical walled vase with solid, rectangular tripod feet. It has a 

 rich orange slip, divided into three parts on the sides by dark red 

 and black linear designs. Red and black lines circle top and bottom, 

 and each panel contains a well-executed seated Mayoid figure, with 

 elaborate headdress, bustle, and outstretched hand, done with fine 

 lines. Later, when this site was reopened to dig through the sterile 

 layer searching for deeper cultural material, a small " salad bowl " 

 type vessel (pi. 14, g) with an annular base, was found nearby right 

 side up at a depth of i.io meters. This bowl is interesting because 

 of its shape and because of the darker orange wash through which 



