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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



only one of the latter has any trace of fire been found. The small 

 objects were funerary. A list of the forms has already been given, 

 which shows quite a variety (figs. 19, 20, 21, and 22). There is a num 

 ber of remarkable globular pottery whistles, or flutes (ocarina), in form 

 of animals; one, about 6 inches long by 4 inches in diameter, with four 

 holes and mouthpiece, gives note C closed and then D, E, F, and 

 F sharp (fig. 23), specimen No. 32, Arellano collection. Another small 

 ocarina has the form of a bird (fig. 24). 



Figs. 19-21. 



TRIPOD AND MORTAR-FORM VESSELS OF THE GUETAROB. Fig. 22. PAINTED JAR OF THE 



CHOKOTEGOS. 



Costa Rica. Arellano Collection. 



The finest object of Costa Eican pottery is the vase No. 3202. It is 

 of fine paste, with cream-colored slip painted red and black. It has 

 the figure of a salamander on one side. (Figs. 25 and 26, Pis. Ill 

 and IV.) 



The vase merits description. The shape, it will be observed from the 

 figure, is that of the jicara mounted upon three almost hemispherical 

 feet, which are hollow and contain sounders. The body of the sala 

 mander is in low relief, while the head projects from the side, being 

 entirely in the round. The artist has applied the salamander in a 



