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the under side of a plate sherd the upper surface of which was decorated 

 with the Higo crocodile motif (fig. 40, k). 



Lothrop illustrates a Grave 5, Sitio Conte, globular collared jar 

 which bears a profiled bird of a different type; the body cavity en- 

 closes a claw scroll utiHzing alternate color and color stop (Lothrop, 

 1942, figs. 194 and 225, b). A vessel with this bird motif and barred 

 scroll collar was also found at La Pena (Mahler, 1961, fig. 3, d). The 

 Sitio Conte vessel is one of a group of four jars from the same grave 

 which are almost identical in shape, style of decoration, and in collar 

 treatment (with one exception) , and which include a number of motifs 

 characteristic of the Pica-pica and Higo varieties at the El Hatillo 

 site. The use of barred scrolls in black line on the collars of three 

 of the vessels, however, is known at He-4 in only one instance (Find 

 346-5), although black figured designs (in contrast to bands alone) are 

 present on vessels from Macaracas (Lothrop, 1942, fig. 466, a) and on 

 a specimen from He-1 at Parita (Find 16-17-^. 



As mentioned earher in this section, four pedestal plates with ray 

 motifs were recovered by Dr. Kussell Mitchell at the V-5 (Piedra del 

 Sol) site near Santiago, Veraguas (personal communication). Two of 

 these require no comment as they are typical Pica-pica ray pedestal 

 plates. The fourth, done in negative technique, will be discussed under 

 the Cuipo variety. The third is notable primarily for the addition of 

 Cuipo circle and dot fill seed pods on the under surface of the plate 

 to Pica-pica elements such as the closed arc with claw base panels and 

 two Pica-pica style rays on the upper surface. 



Jars which, with straight collars and quite constricted orifices, could 

 almost be described as short-spouted bottles (fig. 35, e) with both 

 Pica-pica and Higo variety designs were recovered by Dr. J. Alden 

 Mason at Sitio Conte in Code (Univ. Pennsylvania Mus. cat. Nos. 

 B-11, B-11-33, and 40-15-470) and at the He-4 site by Dr. Russell H. 

 Mitchell (personal communication) . 



Geographical range. — Many vessels of this variety and the following 



Higo variety are illustrated in the literature or are present in museum 



collections. Some of the vessels listed below have been treated in 



greater detail in the section dealing with variations at other sites. 



Chiriqui : MacCurdy, 1911, pi. xliv, fig. 255; Lothrop, 1942, figs. 



480, b and d. 

 Veraguas: La Pena, near Santiago (Wassen, 1960, figs. 12, 13, 

 and 14) (Mahler, 1961, fig. 2, c). 

 Cerro la Vigia, Caseria Culantro, Sonk, Veraguas: Lothrop, 

 1942, fig. 477, b and b' ; 1950, fig. 132 ; another vessel, Lothrop, 



1942, fig. 477, aO- 

 Santiago, Veraguas (Mus. Amer. Ind. cat. Nos. 22/8348 and ' 

 22/8350). 



