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and their classifications have been retained. In deaHng with the 

 designs of the Azuero group, colors are described in terms of everyday 

 usage, i.e., red, black, purple, etc., and, I believe, carry sufficient 

 preciseness for the purposes of this typology. Red may vary from 

 bright, or almost crimson, to dark or a burnt carmine, and purple 

 ranges from burnt carmine to lilac, but these variations did not 

 appear to have any consistent correlation with other attributes. It 

 is possible, although unlikely, that finer color distinctions may become 

 valuable in later analyses, but their usefulness is not apparent at 

 this stage. 



