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Variations from other sites. — Lothrop (1942, fig. 471, d) illustrates 

 an open bowl from Macaracas with interior designs similar to those 

 illustrated in figure 21, a, k. 



Geographical range. — I know of no examples in the literature other 

 than the open bowl with interior An6n design elements from Macaracas 

 mentioned in the section dealing with variations at other sites. One 

 distinct example of this type, from Parita, is present in the Museum 

 of the American Indian (cat. No. 22/9382) and a variant shape with 

 An6n design elements from Kio Grande, Code, is also in the Museum 

 of the American Indian (cat. No. 22/8405). Dr. Russell Mitchell 

 reports (personal communication) typical cross and blob or scallop 

 decoration in Veraguas at Quebrada Honda, Mamey, and Piedra 

 del Sol. 



Chronological position. — Same as Nispero variety. 



Relationships of variety. — Other varieties of the Parita Polychrome 

 type. 



Bibliography.— Lothrop, 1942, fig. 471, d; Stirling, 1950, p. 239, 

 second row from bottom, left, Find 334. 



PARITA polychrome; caimito variety 



Sample. — 2 whole vessels, 15 sherds (pi, 4, c, d). 



Paste. — Same as preceding two varieties. 



Shapes. — One example (vessel P-3) is presumably a bottle (spout 

 missing but indicated by jagged rim) with a high and sharply angled 

 shoulder and a ring base (fig. 17, c; pi. 4, c, d). The only other 

 example (Find 348-2) in the He-4 material at the Peabody Museum 

 appears to have the same shape although it is too fragmentary to 

 permit definite comparison. A third vessel from the site, which 

 remained in Panama, is an angular shouldered pedestal-based bowl 

 (pedestal missing) with an incm-ved rim similar to the two preceding 

 varieties. Included in the sherds are two plate fragments and two 

 handles. 



Surface. — The treatment is the same as that for the Nispero and 

 An6n varieties; i.e., a cream base slip polished in the decorated areas 

 only. The cream ground color shades to light brown in the polished 

 areas ; the delineating colors are black and red. The style of painting 

 is very similar to that of the Nispero variety, and the body elements 

 of egg and band (fig. 22, c) are identical on both examples studied. 

 The main design on one specimen (vessel P-3) consists of an undulating 

 reptile body around the spout, with a mustached mouth at one end 

 (hammerhead shark?) and a stingray tail at the other (fig. 23, a-c). 

 Interspersed in the undulations are elements which evidently indicate 

 scales or turtle shell segments (fig. 23, a, b). Shoulder decoration on 

 the other vessel studied (Find 348-2) consists of fish or reptilian ele- 



