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These scrolls may have "earlike" projections from the outer edge 

 of the swirl as in the Calabaza variety (fig. 29, /) or may be "split- 

 legged," i.e., with a forked extension from the swirl edge, the triangular 

 aperture of which is filled with bar elements and an ellipse (fig. 29, c) . 



As noted earlier, these frog handles reduced to mere lumps with a 

 faint suggestion of legs or none at all appear on the rims of pedestal 

 plates in both the Yampi and Ortiga varieties and occasionally on the 

 collared jar shoulders. The only other instance of modeling noted is 

 the previously discussed face collar. 



Surface. — The entire surface is polished. Ground slip in the design 

 area varies from cream to salmon to a reddish brown while delineating 

 colors are primarily black and red, although purple is also used, par- 

 ticularly in the type "a" design noted below. Design area is limited 

 to the shoulders, coUar, and rims of the collared jars, and to the 

 shoulder of the open pear-shaped bowls. The remainder of the body 

 is separated from the design area by a black band and is normally 

 covered with a red-brown slip. The only plate examples recovered 

 were decorated on the upper surface only. Tall, flaring pedestals 

 decorated with Ortiga variety elements, especially the triangle in a 

 zigzag or the undulating ribbon, also were recovered (fig. 26, a-c). 



Lips and collars of the sharply flaring or curved type are decorated 

 with simple concentric bands of black or black and red in a fashion 

 similar to that of the globular jars of the Pica-pica variety, Macaracas 

 type (see fig. 41, a). Those of the tall, flared type are generally 

 decorated in the interior of the coUar with concentric bands of black 

 or black and red and the triangle in a zigzag or undulating line motif. 

 The flat vertical section of the lips usually is covered with rectangular 

 scroll or spectacle elements similar to those on the tails of the Nispero 

 eJ05gy bird bowls. 



Three, possibly five, main design patterns are apparent in the col- 

 lection for this variety. One, pattern "a," consists of what might be 

 called a "ribbon scroll" in a black banded rectangular panel (fig. 30, a). 

 The same motif may occur in a circular panel on plates (Lothrop, 

 1942, fig. 479; and sherds from Trench 1, He-4). The motif is usually 

 accompanied by a characteristic set of fillers in the shape of distorted 

 rectangles or leaning boxes, triangles, and filled circles (fig. 31). Both 

 red and purple are often used for fill color with these. Pattern "b," 

 which is extremely frequent at the El Hatillo site, especially on col- 

 lared jars, consists of a series of rectangular and interlocking panels 

 which contain triangular elements (fig. 30, b). The third pattern, 

 "c" or "lyre" element (fig. 30, c), again framed by a rectangular 

 black panel and probably representing an alligator, combines a large 

 "bull's-eye" element with an element which suggests a lyre or harp. 

 Characteristic filler elements of barred triangles, boxes and "carpet 



