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A STUDY OF CHIRIQUIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



naturally takes the form not of a square but of a rectangle, the long sides of 

 which are cut lower than their opposites. Patterns cover the entire outer surface. 

 That on the neck and lower zone consists of converging bands. The upper light 

 zone is divided into three panels, the pattern on all being the same. It includes 

 all the elements of the dorsal-view motive. The spots (scale motive), however, 

 instead of being placed in the marginal triangles, are bunched together in a 

 median field. 



Fig. 194. Small vase with radiate orna- 

 mentation. Lost color ware. */ 



Fig. 195. Small vase with radiate orna- 

 mentation, the elements of which may 

 be traced to an alligator motive. Lost 

 color ware. */> 



Fig. 196. Vase in pale yellow and black, with 

 zonal decoration. Lost color ware. '/" 



Fig. 197. Vase in light cream and black, deco- 

 rated with vertical panels each enclosing a faulted 

 meander. Lost color ware. */ 



The lost color ware includes a series of small vases, all the original ground color 

 of which is a rather light cream to salmon-colored slip. The radiate ornament 

 already noted (see fig. 190) abounds in this series. Another example is given in 

 figure 194. The same ornament is repeated in the circular panel on the opposite 

 side. Some of the elements of this pattern suggest those that make up the dorsal- 

 view motive. They may have been derived from another source, however. An- 

 other variety of the radiate ornament or rosette is seen in figure 195. Here again 

 are present the elements that form the dorsal- view motive, but the radiate arrange- 

 ment of the marginal triangles gives a different aspect to the motive as a whole. 



The zonal decoration recurs in figure 196. The bottom is the color of the 



