THE LOST COLOR GROUP. 



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salmon slip. Above are alternating bands of black and salmon color. The two 

 broad black bands are broken up by a succession of diamond-shaped figures. 

 Red occurs only on the rim and the inner surface of the orifice. The panels in 

 figure 197 are vertical, reaching from the collar to the bottom, and bounded by 

 groups of parallel lines. Each panel holds a faulted meander, itself composed of 

 parallel lines. 



Zonal and panel decoration is characteristic of the lost color group. In very 

 rare instances is the panel idea lost sight of. Figure 198, representing a small 

 vase from Divala, is a case in point. The original ground tint was cream-white, 

 the design executed in wax being therefore of that color. It consists of two 



Fig. 198. Small vase decorated with parallel coiled 

 bands ; from Divala. Lost color ware. '/ 



Fig. 199. Vase with handles and with frondlike 

 ornamentation. Lost color ware. '/' 



parallel bands, one solid and one dotted, curved in the shape of a ram's horn 

 that describes a vertical circle twice, the base of the horn being at the neck and 

 the tip in the plane of the equatorial diameter. The black field within the outer 

 coil is decorated with a white pattern in the shape of a four-pointed starfish. 

 The design is repeated on the opposite side of the vessel and in the same sense, 

 i. e., each represents the right horn. A similar design is found on a small vase 

 from Bugavita. In the latter case, the coil is carried round three times and is 

 therefore closer, leaving no room for the starfish pattern. 



The vase reproduced in figure 199 is provided with a pair of handles uniting 

 shoulder with prolonged lip. The handles having been applied before the polishing 

 took place, their under surfaces as well as the neck and the parts of the shoulder 

 underneath the handles are left in the rough. The lip and the outer surface of 

 the handles are painted red. The original ground of the neck and entire body 

 is a pale salmon slip. The black is so nearly gone that the decoration is much 

 dimmed. A frondlike motive is repeated over and over again. A median point 

 on the bottom is the center. Through it pass four slender vertical parallel bands 

 reaching from a position half-way between the handles on one side to a like 

 position on the opposite side. Beginning at the bottom and ascending on either 

 side to the neck are successive pairs of opposite fronds. Each frond consists of 

 three slender parallel bands rather sharply curved at the tips, with a single row 

 of spots adjacent and parallel to the longer upper band. In some cases this row 



