THE RED LINE GROUP. 



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with an indented horizontal fillet representing some life form. The paint is 

 applied to the handle and the rim as in the preceding, with a painted panel on 

 either side. Between these panels and opposite the single handle are two plain 

 nodes of clay. A large black spot on the outer surface is due to faulty firing. 



A different effect is produced by the specimen shown in figure c, where the 

 neck is smaller and the lip is prolonged almost horizontally to meet the ascending 

 ramus of the single handle. On the neck, opposite the handle and protected by 

 the projecting lip, are nodes and fillets applied so as to reproduce the human 

 features ears, eyes and nose. At the base of the neck there is a slight beading. 

 A pattern painted in red lines covers the upper half of the body on either side, 

 and the bottom is painted red. 



A representation of the vases without handles or supports is given in figure d. 

 The margin of the rim is marked by radiating, straight-line incisions, inside of 

 which is a band of red paint. Another band of color encircles the body in the 

 region of its greatest diameter, and the customary large round spot of red adorns 

 the bottom. The walls are thick and not carefully worked over the inner sur- 

 face. 



The characteristic looped tripod foot is shown in figure e, a specimen from 

 Caldera. Indeterminate life forms are applied on opposite sides of the body, the 

 upper half of which is also adorned with a ladder-like zigzag pattern in red 

 encircling the vessel. The walls are thin and badly cracked. 



The tall ewer-shaped vessel re- 

 produced in figure / is unique. It 

 may have served as a drum. A drum- 

 head could have been stretched over 

 the aperture and made fast to the 

 prominences that surround the neck. 

 The bell-shaped base is not perforated. 

 A slip covers the interior of the mouth 

 opening to a depth of three centi- 

 meters and on it two red bands are 

 traced horizontally ; a third marks the 

 rim, and two more surround the neck 

 just above the relief ornament. Four 

 horizontal bands encircle the body, one 

 of them being a series of connected 



triangular areas. The base also is marked by longitudinal and transverse 

 bands. 



The large tripod reproduced in figure 156 comes from El Banco. A red band 

 encircles the rim, while groups of parallel red lines alternating with small trian- 

 gular painted areas adorn the shoulder. The walls are thick and firm. A bowl 

 from Gualaca with unusual characters is illustrated in figure 157. The walls are 

 ten millimeters thick. The annular base is low and not perforated ; its rim and 

 outer surface are painted red. Three broad bands of red are carried upward from 

 the annular base to the rim at the aperture, which is also adorned with a band 

 of the same color. The three alternating fields are partially filled in with red 



Fig. 156. Tripod with short looplike supports; from El 

 Banco. Red line ware. l l> 



