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Mound III, 2 were classified as Early on the basis of concentric 

 color-filled band design (Lothrop, 1942, fig. 74) and 16 as Late on 

 the basis of coral snake lip combined with what was probably a 

 dancing crocodile, other Late Period designs, and pedestal bases. 



Aristide Group Polychromes 



No Escota type sherds or vessels were recovered, but the Gir6n 

 type is represented by 49 sherds, all from Interior Banded open bowls 

 with ski-tip rims and circumferential banding below the lip similar 

 to those which characterize the He-l and He-2 sites. 



Red Line Ware Type 

 (207 Sherds) 



This type, already described by Lothrop (Lothrop, 1942, pp. 131- 

 134, and as Purple on Buff, p. 169) and also described in its Red 

 Daubed variety by WiUey and Stoddard in 1954, was found at IIe-4 

 in sherd form only. In the sherd analysis at IIe-4, three tentative 

 categories were established: a Purple Line category (72 sherds), a 

 Red Daubed category (182 sherds), and a Red Line category (16 

 sherds). The three were totaled in the final analysis as Red on Buff 

 or Cream on the basis that the distinctions between them are not 

 significant. As Lothrop pomted out, the same designs, generally 

 teardrop or dribble elements, occur on both a buff ground (Red 

 Daubed) and on a cream to white shp (Red Line), while the red may 

 vary in hue from red to purple (Purple Line).^* Thus the same de- 

 signs noted by Lothrop, Willey and Stoddard, and in this report for the 

 Giron site, He-l, and He-2, appear in either purple or red on the usual 

 shapes, i.e., unmodified lip plates (incensario fragments?) and coUared 

 jars with or without strap handles. Both of these occurred frequently 

 at He-4, but additional rare forms included loop handles with purple 

 line decoration (Trench 8, Level 4), a dish fragment with a loop 

 handle on the rim decorated in Red Daubed fashion (Trench 8, 

 Level 3), and two Red Daubed buff fragments of an open bowl or 

 dish (Trench 2) with an obliquely flattened hp, inclined and flanged 

 toward the interior similar in shape to Smoked ware type, Platanillo 



variety rims. 



Red and White Ware 



This category (a few sherds from Mound III) did not become 

 apparent until late in the analysis and undoubtedly should include 

 a number of the rim and handle sherds which were classified as cream 

 slip. Although the white shade may and often does vary to a pinkish 

 cream, the Red and White ware is distinguished from creamed shpped 



» If the 32 sherds of the Red Daubed Bull category (discussed below under Red-BuS wares) are added, 

 the total for Red Line wares reaches 239 sherds. 



