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either style at He-4, nor have I noticed any in the literature. In 

 both styles the artists favored an orange to a brownish-red ground 

 color, although lighter and creamier shades were common in the 

 curvilinear style. Finally, the styles shared some motifs, such as 

 the crocodUe, although expressed in quite different fashions. 



Differentiation of the curvilinear style as expressed in Macaracas 

 type design elements from the Late Code style is difficult and not 

 always possible in sherd lots. The distinction depends on quality of 

 line, combinations of pigment, and types of design (Lothrop, 1942, 

 p. 118). There is generally a greater use of fine lines in the Macaracas 

 type (hence Lothrop 's Foreign Style A, Fine Line Style of Grave 5) ; 

 claws on alligator plates may be both fine line or color filled on Macar- 

 acas vessels, but are seldom if ever fine line on Code vessels; barbed 

 plumes are characteristic of Macaracas, but apparently absent in the 

 Code style; etc.^ As a general characterization, designs in the Code 

 style appear less cluttered and more delineated than do those in the 

 Azuero. The inclosure of designs in black-banded panels, a charac- 

 teristic of all Azuero types, is absent in Code style polychromes. 

 However, broad purple or red bands bordered by narrow black lines, 

 used in geometric designs, or by themselves above or below the design 

 area (e.g., Lothrop, 1942, pi. 2, e) are more common on Cocl6 vessels. 



Other characteristics not specifically stylistic which are covered in 

 other sections of this report are the following: 



1. Ground color of the design area is commonly buff, salmon, or 

 brown in the Azuero styles, although a cream white occurs fairly 

 often. In the Cocl^ styles the cream white to dead white is much 

 more common. 



2. The design elements of the two ceramic groups are not shared, 

 with the conspicuous exception of scroll elements and dragon motifs. 



3. Paste color of the Azuero vessels and sherds at the El Hatillo 

 site invariably fell within an orange to brick red, dark red or brown 

 hue, never gray, whereas the latter shade occurs quite frequently in 

 sherds with unmistakably Cocl6 designs. 



4. Basic shape categories between the two styles are, for the main 

 part, separate. About the only two shared by Late Cocl6 and the 

 Azuero styles are the pedestal bowl or plate and the collared jar. 

 However, pedestals of vessels decorated in the Code style are generally 

 shorter in proportion to the vessel's diameter and more frequently are 

 flanged at the foot, a mode which is absent on Azuero style vessels. 

 Code collared jars are more apt to have straight rather than curving 

 collars and the lips are more frequently horizontally flattened and 



' These particular diflferences concerning the alligator motif are discussed more fulJy in that section 

 dealing with the Hlgo variety. As noted, confusion generally is limited to scroll or alligator motifs and 

 often other modes besides those of style must be Included to differentiate the two polychrome groups. 



