THE TRIPOD OR FISH GROUP. 



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half-way round the bowl just below the rim. Another vessel in the series is 

 fundamentally the same, but with variations in the details of execution. The legs 

 are curved and set closer together, the bowl is angular in outline and not painted 

 inside. The life form on one side of it is probably intended to represent the 

 monkey. The interior of the urn-shaped vessel shown in figure 152 is given a 

 solid coat of red paint ; of the exterior, only the neck and the concave bottom 



Fig. 151. Tripod, the shallow bowl of which is decorated 

 with crab and fin motives. Fish ware. V> 



Fig. 152. Vase with annular base. 

 Fish ware. '/ 



are painted. The zone between shoulder and base bears relief ornaments and is 

 finished in a salmon-colored slip. 



The fish group includes a number of vessels with shallow basins that would 

 seem to be strangers here but for the identity of paste and paint. In these 



'53- Tripod with elongated shallow bowl, and 

 handles suggesting life forms. Fish ware. '/> 



Fig. 154. Another tripod similar in type, unpainted ; 

 from Bugavita. Fish ware. V> 



respects they help to link the fish group with the handled ware. One has been 

 led to associate tripods with vertical handles ; but in figures 153 and 154, the 

 handles being modifications of the rim, belong to the horizontal type. Some are 

 twisted, others are accompanied by foot symbols, and still others are perfectly 

 plain. Figure 154, an unusual type, shows the only one that does not bear marks 

 of red paint. The legs in all are rudely finished. 



There are two tripods in the collection that cannot be referred to any of the 

 groups into which the Chiriquian pottery has been divided. Although found in 



