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Figure 61. — Gir6n polychrome vessel shapes from Co-2. a-e, Interior banded 

 variety (d-e are rare); f-l, Gir6n plain; m-q, Gir6n red, 



vessels await publication of the report on that site. It was, moreover, 

 the dominant variety within the Girdn type at both He-1 and He-2 

 and was represented at the latter site by two complete vessels (Finds 

 5-a and 8) as well as by sherds. No instances that I know of have 

 been reported from Veraguas or Chiriqm, but Linn6 (1929, fig. 24) and 

 Cruxent (1958, pi. 13) illustrate examples from the Pearl Islands and 

 the Gulf of San Miguel respectively. Thus, the variety as known at 

 the present time has a southerly and easterly distribution. 



Chronological position. — As is the case with the Banded Lip variety, 

 the Interior Banded variety also apparently was popular both before 

 the Early Period at Sitio Conte and during it, a conclusion based on its 

 relative position at the Gir6n site and at He-1 and He-2. There is a 

 clear indication at He-1 that the Interior Banded variety reached its 

 peak of popularity after the Banded Lip had begun to decline, but 

 the stratigraphic situation at the Gir6n site suggests the opposite. 



