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Geographical range. — I know of no definite examples outside of 

 the Parita area. Two possible examples from the Pearl Islands are 

 illustrated by Linne (1929, fig. 25-5, 18-^). Lothrop (1950, fig. 55) 

 illustrated an undecorated bottle with a typical El HatUlo variety 

 bird efiigy bottle spout. Examples of the variety in the Heye Mu- 

 seum (Nos. 22/9334, 22/9452, and 22/9499) are all from the Parita 

 area; two from the Finca Calderon or El Hatillo site. 



Chronological position. — Believed to be late on the basis of scanty 

 stratigraphic evidence at the El Hatillo site. 



Relationships of variety. — Related in form and design elements to 

 other varieties in the type. Related by choice of colors and surface 

 finish to both Parita and Macaracas types, and to the Cerit6 variety. 



Bibliography. — Stirling, 1950, p. 239, 2d row from top, left. 



EL HATILLO POLYCHKOME; ESPAlX VARIETT 



Sample. — Neither vessels nor large fragments; 30 sherds. 



Paste. — Same as the El HatUlo variety. 



Shapes. — At the El Hatillo site this variety shares most of the 

 shapes of the preceding variety with the notable exception of bottles. 

 Since the variety is known by sherds only, shapes are not always 

 determinable. They include, however, closed vessels with rounded 

 shoulders, sharply angled shoulders, and bird bowls. In addition, 

 two shapes not noted for the previous variety are the pedestal plate 

 and a dish with outcurved flaring sides (fig. 7, r). A few of these 

 sherds indicate large vessels; one sharply angled shoulder sherd is 

 8 mm. thick and has a projected diameter for the whole vessel of about 

 60 cms. In general, however, the size appears to be close to that of 

 the El Hatillo variety. 



Surface. — The surface color, polish, and general technique of 

 decoration is the same as that of the preceding variety. Actually, 

 the Espala variety is distinguished from the El Hatillo solely on the 

 basis of the use of "teeth" projections along what appear to be the 

 mouths and snouts of rectangular alligator motifs (fig. 13) and the 

 occurrence of double or even triple black lines bordering the red. 

 Although occasional rectangular alligator motifs are found on the 

 vessels assigned to the El Hatillo variety, the toothlike projections 

 and the more frequent use of double line are absent. This motif 

 with tooth projections does occur, however, on Cerit6 variety vessels. 

 Whether these slight decorative differences, as well as some shape 

 variations, are a sufficient basis for setting up a variety will only 

 become apparent with further investigation and excavation. 



Variations from other sites. — Lothrop illustrates two additional 

 shapes decorated in the style of this variety; one a sharp-angled- 

 shoulder cylindrical jar fragment which has a short flare collar (Loth- 



