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bowl from the Finca Calderon site at Parita, which combines the dot 

 fill of the El HatUlo variety with the toothed line and double line 

 elements of the Espala variety (cat. No. 22/9452). In this case the 

 wings and tail are represented by painted decoration only, not by 

 modeling. Another vessel at the same museum (cat. No. 22/8384) 

 listed from Parita combines the Espala alligator motif with the charac- 

 teristic shape and arc with pendent triangle motif of the Achote 

 variety. 



Geographical range. — As noted above, two vessels with Espala 

 design patterns are illustrated by Lothrop (1942, fig, 229; 1950, fig. 

 134-a) from Espala, Veraguas, and one vessel combining Espala and 

 Achote design elements was present in the Heye collection from 

 Parita. I know of no other examples in the hterature. 



Chronological position. — Same as El Hatillo variety. 



Relationships of variety. — Same as El Hatillo variety. 



Bibliography. — See Geographical range. 



EL HATILLO POLYCHROME; ACHOTE VARIETY 



Sample. — Three whole vessels or large fragments, four sherds 

 (pl. 2, ci). 



Paste. — Same as the El Hatillo variety. 



Shapes. — Vessels assigned to this variety are limited in shape to a 

 sharp-angled-shoulder jar with a small bird head projecting from the 

 constricted orifice rim (fig. 7, p). The lips are rounded and the vessels 

 have ring bases. As may be seen in figure 7 from a comparison of p 

 with t, this shape is very similar to one of those assigned to the Jobo 

 variety and might be treated as a minor variation of the latter if the 

 differences were not so consistent in the few vessels so far recovered. 

 The Achote variety jar always appears to be taller and slimmer than 

 those of the Jobo variety due to the smaller base diameter in pro- 

 portion to the diameter of the shoulder. 



Surface. — The entire surface is polished as is the case in the El 

 Hatillo variety, but here the polishing marks are usually more ap- 

 parent. Decoration is limited to the shoulder and extreme upper 

 body, and usually consists of a single design motif (fig. 14, a), a split 

 or semiclosed arc with fretted ends and, often, triangles pendent 

 from the arc roof. 



The semiclosed arc element is shared with the Macaracas varieties, 

 but in this case the element is expressed in an angular style. One 

 sherd from Mound III at the El Hatillo site combines the semiclosed 

 arc with the pendent triangle motif and the toothed angular crocodUe 

 of the Espala variety, a combination which also occurs elsewhere. 



Variations from other sites. — As noted above, a vessel from Parita, 

 now at the Museum of the American Indian (cat. No. 22/8384), com- 

 bines Espala design elements with Achote shape and design motifs. 



