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was associated in the Find Unit with a Pica-pica variety vessel. One of the 

 reverse flare collar sherds from Mound III retained enough of the body wall to 

 indicate broad modeled bulges similar to a squash (fig. 53, b). A few median 

 flange collar sherds were recovered from Mound III and Trench 2, Level 1 

 (fig. 53, d,/). 



(d) Straight collar jars. — A number of sherds and one complete vessel 

 were found with short straight collars, almost as though the flange occasionally 

 found on the collarless jars had been extended a few centimeters. In these 

 cases, the body probably was round-shouldered. The one complete vessel how- 

 ever, Find 368-18, is a miniature collared jar with an angled shoulder and some- 

 what pointed base. An atypical Red-buff collar with a relatively narrow neck, 

 a high straight collar, and a rounded lip was recovered in Mound III (fig. 53, i). 



6. Bottles. — A number of Red-buff ware spouts were recovered, some of the 

 inward flanged type described in the section dealing with the Calabaza variety, and 

 others relatively straight with flattened or unmodified lips like those of the El 

 Hatillo variety bird effigy bottles and the Cerit6 variety bottles. In addition, sub- 

 globular bottles (fig. 53, g, h) and pyramidal-shaped bottles (fig. 53, j) were part 

 of Find 369 where they were associated with Pica-pica and Cuipo variety poly- 

 chromes. They also occurred without polychrome associations in Find 377. 

 Two funnel-shaped probable rattle fragments with both ends broken, thus either 

 spouts or pedestal bases, were recovered from Mound III (fig. 53, k). No pellets 

 were present but the broader apertures were closed over with a perforated clay 

 layer similar to the rattle base described for the Cuipo variety. 



7. Bird eflSgies. — Counterparts in Red-buff ware of the Nispero variety bird 

 effigy bowls, and the El Hatillo variety globular bird effigy bowls were found 

 without polychrome associations in Mound III. Two squat versions in Red-buff 

 ware of the Achote variety bird jar, like the pyramidal bottle discussed above, 

 were present in Find 369 with Cuipo and Pica-pica associations. 



8. Miscellaneous Red-buff ware. — Pot covers. — A number of small pot covers 

 (8-10 cm. in diameter) were recovered with either a single loop handle or a lug 

 in the center (fig. 54, a, c) . These vessels are seldom slipped and are often quite 

 rough in surface texture. Loop-handled pot covers of this sort occurred in Finds 

 354, 368, 369, and 377, and were associated with Cuipo, Higo, and Pica-pica 

 Polychrome varieties. The lug pot cover occurred in Find 366 without poly- 

 chrome associations and in Find 377 again without polychrome associations but 

 in conjunction with the loop-handled variety. In addition, larger open bowls 

 (fig. 54, h) averaging about 30 cm. in diameter were found inverted as pot covers 

 over the large urns of Mound II, Finds 10, 14, 16, 18. Generally these are red- 

 slipped with a thin wash on the lip and convex or outer surface and have one or 

 two loop handles in the center, sometimes crisscrossed, sometimes separate, but 

 at right angles to each other. The concave surfaces are unslipped except for 

 the area adjacent to the lip. The pot cover for OUa 2 of Find 10 was, however, 

 a simple ring-based bowl with outcurving lip and no handles (fig. 54, d) . 



Incensarios. — Although many of the plate rim sherds may have been 

 incensario fragments, no complete vessels of this kind were found. Three small 

 flat handles similar to that illustrated by Lothrop (Lothrop, 1942, fig. 353, d) 

 were found in Level 2 of Trench 8, but two of these, instead of being rectangular, 

 had a slight fishtail shape (fig. 54, e). One of the latter, apparently broken near 

 the point of juncture with the dish, measured 7 cm. long by 3 cm. wide by 1.2 cm. 

 thick. None of the round type found at Sitio Conte were present in the Peabody 

 collection. 



