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Figure 25.— Parita type, Yampf variety, Mound III miscellaneous sherds. 

 Horizontal lines indicate red. 



plates give the impression of greater delicacy of style, although 

 the same elements appear on both types of plates. These include 

 ovals, semiclosed arcs, and boxlike elements all executed in broad 

 black lines (often with red or purple fill) on the plate rims (fig. 24), 

 while the central area of the plate is filled with a ray or sharklike 

 fish (fig. 24, d, h). The latter motif definitely occurs on the flanged 



