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A STUDY OF CHIRIQUIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



miles west-northwest of David. A single specimen from the environs of David, 

 somewhat similar to the former, is figured by Alphonse Pinart. 1 



Fig. 162. Tripod with incised panels on shoulder 

 and short supports representing animal heads ; from 

 Divala. Chocolate incised ware. V" 



Fig. 163.- Very small tripod with unbroken 

 incised pattern around shoulder, and short 

 solid supports. Chocolate incised ware. '/' 



THE SCARIFIED GROUP. 



The scarified group numbers twenty specimens in all. Sixteen are tripods, 

 three have convex bottoms, and one is flat-bottomed. A slightly raised marginal 

 flange in the last-named has preserved the flat bottom from wear. All are covered 

 with a uniform coat of maroon paint, which in most cases is spread over the 

 surface of the interior also. The paint was applied after the scarifications had 

 been made and, 'as a rule, the scratched areas were not painted. The region 

 bounded by the feet of the tripods is always left smooth. 



A majority of the pieces come from a 

 locality twenty-five miles northwest of David, 

 at the head-waters of a stream called in 

 McNiel's notes, Rio Chiriagua. Seven or 

 eight are from Caldera about twenty miles 

 northeast of David, and the large flat-bottomed 

 vessel (see PI. XXVI, fig. a) came from a 

 locality noted by McNiel as being at lati- 

 tude 8 34' N. and longitude 82 26' W. of 

 Greenwich, i. e., about eight or ten miles 

 north of David. The pottery of this same 

 group described by Holmes came from the 

 graves of the two other localities, " one near 

 C. E. Taylor's hacienda, north of David, on 

 the slopes of Mount Chiriqui, and the other 

 at Alanje, southwest of David." Specimens 



of this ware are therefore fairly well distributed over the province of Chiriqui, 

 although found in relatively small numbers. 



Fig. 164. Non-scarified vase with handles crudely 

 representing animal forms ; from Caldera 

 Scarified ware. '/> 



1 Les indiens de 1'Etat de Panama. Rev. d'ethnogr., 125, fig. 20, 1887. 



