Ladd] PARITA AND SANTA MARIA ARCHEOLOGY, PANAMA 133 



Cream Ware 



This group (207 sherds), set up as a sorting category for sherds 

 slipped in cream or white alone, undoubtedly includes fragments from 

 a number of vessels which belong in the Red and White classification 

 above. One complete vessel (Find 344) and a few large fragments of 

 pinkish creamed slip shallow bowls with short vertical walls or 

 upturned rims (fig. 51, 6) were found. The diameter of Find 344 is 

 18.5 cm. and its height is 6 cm. Slips are unpolished and often rather 

 rough or gritty. Other fragments of the same shape in cream slip 

 but with shorter rims occurred with loop handles extending more or 

 less vertically from the lips similar to the Red-buff examples (see 

 fig. 52, d-f), and one of these also was decorated with an applique 

 worm along the outer edge of the rim similar to those (see fig. 52, h, c) 

 illustrated for Red-buff open bowls. The spacing of the handles on 

 the rim fragments mentioned above (Trench 7, Level 1) indicates 

 that there were four handles evenly spaced about the lip. Other 

 cream-slipped handles recovered were of the loop type, and varied in 

 size from medium (10 cm. long) to large (roughly 20 cm.). Other 

 shapes in cream slip include plates, collars with a median flange or 

 angle (similar to the Red ware shape illustrated in figure 53, d), and 

 constricted orifice jars with horizontally placed loop handles on the 

 shoulder. These are known from rim sherds only. 



The following miscellaneous appendages or supports in cream slip 

 also occurred: a large, heavy loop leg (the worn area at the exterior 

 apex of the loop is clearly visible) with an oval cross section (Mound 

 III), a small conical lug (Mound III), and a hollow bulbous foot with 

 short parallel line incisions at the "toe" and two perforations on either 

 side of the bulbous upper area. 



As noted above, this category appears to be too vague to warrant 

 varietal status. Many of the fragments which comprise it belong 

 either to Red and White vessels, or probably to other, unclassified, 

 vessels. It is also possible that Find 344 and some of the other large 

 fragments of similar shape are unfinished examples of vessels which 

 were to have had a red slip added. This is pretty definitely the case 

 in Find 182, a clear and typical example of a Nispero bird effigy bowl 

 entirely covered with a buff-cream slip without additional decoration 

 of any kind. 



MONOCHROME WARES 



As distinct from the method used with the polychrome wares in 

 which varieties and types were established primarily on the basis of 

 whole vessels, the analysis of the monochrome wares is based, in part, 

 on previous categories such as Lothrop's Smoked ware and Plain Red 



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