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ever, one Banded Lip bowl (Find 1-a) was found with a probable 

 Red Daubed strap-handled jar (Find 1-6), a shape which is apparently 

 present in the Early Code Period but not the Late. In addition, 

 the general ceramic affinities of the site are entirely with the Early 

 Period at Sitio Conte. 



Relationships of variety. — Related to the Escota type and the 

 Black Line Geometric ware at Sitio Conte. 



Bibliography. — Lothrop, 1942; Willey and Stoddard, 1954; Willey 

 and McGimsey, 1954; Ladd, 1957. 



gir6n polychrome; interior banded variety 



Sample. — 282 sherds. 



Paste. — Same as the Banded Lip variety. Rim thickness ranges 

 from 5-17 mm. with the average at about 9 mm. 



Shapes. — Shallow bowls or plates generally with rounded or slightly 

 flattened hps (fig. 61, a-c). Lips with exterior flanging (fig. 61, d, e) 

 occur rarely. Since most of the sherds were rim sherds only, there 

 is little evidence of the base type, but one ring base and one pedestal 

 base were assigned to this variety. 



Surface. — Both interior and exterior surfaces are smoothed but not 

 pohshed. Vessel interior ground color is about evenly divided be- 

 tween a red wash or sUp and a buff which occasionaUy appears almost 

 white and at other times verges on an orange shade. Exterior color 

 also varies from red to buff, the red often being unevenly applied in 

 streaks or dribbles. The designs, in black only, are limited to the 

 interior of the vessel. 



As is the case with other polychromes of the Aristide group, the 

 designs are geometric in character. The most common design appears 

 to be a series of parallel lines running across the vessel interior from 

 lip to lip and bordered on each side by a somewhat broader line which 

 widens at the lip to make a triangular motif with a concave hypote- 

 nuse (fig. 60, a). Although there were no complete vessels to illustrate 

 these patterns, it seems probable that there were cases in which two 

 groups of parallel lines met in the vessel center to form a cross layout 

 or meet obliquely in the center. Some bowl center fragments show a 

 diamond element, other sherds have a series of circumferential black 

 bands on the inner wall just below, and paraUel to, the lip. A few 

 sherds have a black scallop design as a complete border on top of the 

 lip, but this is an uncommon motif. Examples of Interior Banded 

 vessels from other sites are illustrated in plate 10, a, b. 



Geographical range. — This variety is not illustrated for Sitio Conte, 

 but it may have been present in the sherd lots. It is present at Venado 

 Beach (Peabody Mus. cat. Nos. 51-25-20/20342, 20717, 20840, and 

 possibly others) although the specific associations of these sherds and 



