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horizontal and vertical lines of the lighter underslip stand out. More 

 complicated curvilinear designs of this type occur on the inside of 

 the bowl. This rather peculiar type of negative painting is well shown 

 in the photograph (pi. 14, g). 



The foregoing account, in conjunction with that of our excavations 

 at La Ceiba, gives an idea of the manner in which vessels representing 

 the various types of polychrome ware occur in the smaller Lake Yojoa 

 mounds. Later, in connection with a site at El Eden, we will discuss 

 the present slender evidence regarding the apparent vertical distribu- 

 tion of Yojoa polychrome pottery types in these relatively shallow 

 sites. Although traces of human bones occurred with only one of 

 our burials, there seems good reason to believe that the majority of 

 these pottery caches were once with skeletons, all traces of which have 

 now disappeared. It is further indicated that these low mounds also 

 served as places of habitation during the polychrome period, and that 

 burials occurred beneath the house floors. Probably, as at La Ceiba 

 and Aguacate, many of these mounds were used, or came to be used, 

 almost entirely for burial purposes, and it is in these that the great 

 masses of rocks occur. Others, like the site we are discussing, served 

 primarily for habitation, but burials also took place under and near 

 the houses. Such habitation mounds seem to have relatively few large 

 rocks. There remains briefly to sketch in the rest of the artifact con- 

 tent of the polychrome horizon at this site, and then to describe the 

 occurrence of a deeper, older, cultural horizon which was encountered 

 at the very end of our stay at Jaral. 



The sherds from this one Los Naranjos mound site present a wide 

 variety of Yojoa polychrome types. In addition to those already men- 

 tioned among the entire vessels are Mayoid pieces with incising as 

 well as painting ; Bold Animalistic sherds ; heavy Bold Geometric 

 sherds ; polished brown carved fragments ; heavy gray or buff sherds 

 painted only on the flat upper surface with bright black, red, and 

 orange designs (one of these is flat with a small annular base) ; un- 

 slipped brown grater fragments ; and two cylindrical spouts of coarse 

 brown pottery. The latter may have been carried in by the natives 

 from older deposits since we have seen no Lake Yojoa polychrome 

 vessels with this type of spout. One candelario fragment of coarse 

 brown ware has three compartments and simple incised designs. There 

 are two spindle whorls, one of plain brown ware, the other a ground- 

 down, painted sherd. All the above come from depths ranging from 

 the surface to 1.45 meters in depth. A complete Mayoid figure form- 

 ing a whistle comes from a depth of 65 centimeters, and a bird whistle 

 from 1. 10 meters. In addition, there are numerous fragments includ- 



