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Relationships of variety. — Besides its obvious relationships to the 

 EscotS, type and Lothrop's Black Line Geometric ware, the general 

 technique of simple black geometric designs on red-slipped bowl 

 interiors is also present in the Black-on-red ware bowl illustrated by 

 Lothrop (Lothrop, 1942, fig. 277, b) for Sitio Conte. 



Bibliography. — See the Banded Lip variety. 



gir6n type; plain variety 



Sample. — 175 sherds. 



Paste. — This variety is a residual category for buff, reddish, and 

 grayish unshpped ware. 



Shapes. — Globular or subglobular jars with constricted orifices 

 and little or no rim modification (fig. 61, /-Z). 



Appendages and construction. — Ring bases, probably for plates or 

 shallow bowls. Pedestal bases of varying heights from a minimum of 

 2.2 cm; at least one had a flanged foot or rim. Adornos affixed to 

 the vessel wall included a free-standing human or monkey figure with 

 head missing, and three small buttonlike nodes with incised and 

 modeled faces. Lugs were of both the flattened flange type (occurring 

 just below the rim and roughly triangular in shape when viewed from 

 above) and the node type. The latter range in length from 1.2-4 

 cms. Loop handles are the most common in this plain ware, strap 

 handles are much rarer, and a few ropelike loop handles were also 

 recovered. Vessel shapes to which these were attached are unknown. 



Geographical range. — Like many other presumably utiUtarian un- 

 decorated wares, both the Red and Plain varieties of the Gir6n type 

 are diflBcult to identify because of the ubiquity of the forms and lack 

 of distinctive features. For instance, the two Plain Buff ware col- 

 lared jars illustrated by Lothrop (Lothrop, 1942, fig. 336, a, b) might 

 or might not be classified as Gir6n Plain although they come from a 

 Late Period grave. At He-4 practically all the plain ware was so 

 eroded that it is impossible to say whether the vessels originally had 

 a red slip or no slip at all. However, ropelike loop handles were 

 found there, but always in red slipped ware and in some cases clearly 

 as part of the Delgado Red coUarless jar assemblage. Major cate- 

 gories of plain ware did not emerge at either of the He-1 or He-2 

 sites. At the present time one can only say that Gir6n Plain cannot 

 be definitely identified beyond the Gir6n site. 



Chronological position. — At the Gir6n site, this variety showed 

 a definite increase in the upper levels, and thus would be equated 

 with the appearance of Cocl6 and Azuero polychromes. 



Relationships of variety. — The collarless constricted orifice jars of 

 this variety are similar in shape to those of the Delgado Red type. 

 Bibliography. — See the Banded Lip variety. 



