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reduced to three, alternating with wider intervening open spaces. The same 

 though somewhat more elaborate motive is reproduced in figure 228. Here the 

 intimate association of the scale symbols with the curved bands representing the body 

 is suggestive. There is plenty of room for the spots in the center of these enclosed 

 fields, but they cling everywhere so closely to the boundaries as to appear like half-disks. 

 Three arched panels with decorated intervening areas also occur in figure a of 

 Plate XXXVI, the design in each arched panel being the dorsal-view motive. 

 Freedom in the treatment of the arched panel runs through the entire series 

 represented in this plate. The arched panels are quite large in figure 6, the spaces 

 between them and surrounding the neck being in the color of the slip. Each panel 

 enclosed two groups of concentric triangles, the angles of the inner ones being 

 marked with dotted dentals ; the whole panel decoration is a variation of the dorsal- 

 view motive. The suggestive association of spots and crossed zigzag bands is shown 

 in figure c, each band being a multiple body-line accompanied by dermal markings. 

 There is a multiplication of the arched bands tangent to the neck in figure d, a 



Fig. 229. Vase having but two arched panels in which 

 scale- and spine-motives are grouped ; from Divala. 

 Alligator ware. *' 



Fig. 230. Double-necked vase with the dorsal-view 

 motive as a panel decoration ; from Bugavita. Al- 

 ligator ware. '/ 



vase from Divala. What remains of the enclosed field is crossed by six short 

 vertical bands, the outer ones bearing lateral spines a typical example of the 

 dorsal-view motive. This vase and the three preceding (a, b and c) are highly 

 characteristic of the alligator ware in regard to paste, slip, form and decoration. 

 The two vases (both from Divala) represented in figures e and / are perhaps not 

 so typical, except for the character of the black and red paint used and the treat- 

 ment of the arched panels. The slip is thinner and of a duller hue. Both the 

 neck and the lower zone are treated to a coat of red, leaving the slip to show 

 only on the shoulder. The short vertical bands crossing each panel in figure e 

 are accompanied by dotted dentals (the scale-group motive). This combination 

 represents a section of the alligator's body viewed from above, as first noted in 

 the lost color ware (see PI. XXXI). The panel decorations in figures a, b. f and 

 e are variants of the same motive. 



