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A STUDY OK CHIRIQUIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



THE WHITE LINE GROUP. 



Only four specimens can be referred with certainty to this group. Three others 

 have all the characters except that white paint was not used. Six of the seven 

 are tripods with narrow necks. The piece without legs (fig. 176) is the largest 

 of the group and differs from the tripods in having a comparatively large orifice. 



The shoulder meets the body proper at 

 a rather pronounced angle, below which 

 are numerous striae produced by an un- 

 usually rough polishing instrument. The 

 ground tint is a dull red. Two indifferent 

 animal heads, in relief, are used as shoulder 

 ornaments. The shoulder is also decorated 

 with six groups of vertical lines in white, 

 that reach down to the peripheral angle. 

 Each line is accompanied by one or two 

 rows of white spots, the spots being mar- 

 ginal and in actual contact with the line. 

 This motive repeated in the next figure 

 is similar to one that is often employed 

 with variations in the lost color and 

 alligator groups, and is evidently an al- 

 ligator motive, derived from a dorsal view 



of the alligator (see Pis. XXXI, XXXVI). The vessel is badly smoked from use 

 over the fire. 



Similar decorative motives are employed on a tripod (fig. 177) with gracefully 

 curving outlines and narrow orifice. The ground tint is the same a dull red. 

 Indented nodes applied to the shoulder on either side represent life forms. The 



Fig. 176. Vase decorated with the alligator dorsal- 

 view motive in white. White line ware. Vi 



ig- ' 77- Tripod, the shoulder of which is decorated 

 with the dorsal-view alligator motive in white. 

 White line ware. V" 



Fig. 1780. -Small tripod with shoulder ornamen- 

 tation suggestive of hieroglyphics, and legs re- 

 presenting animal forms ; from Bugavita. '/' 



rim ends square against a horizontal plane. Near its outer margin begin six groups 

 of white lines, three lines in a group, which are carried downward in vertical 

 planes to about the level of the greatest horizontal circumference of the body. 



