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most of which is also bordered with the small triangles. Variations on 

 this theme include broken or dashed horizontal lines. On a few sherds, 

 the horizontal groups of lines are carried up onto the collar. 



Groups of horizontal lines, beginning below the collar and separated 

 by a field of vertical lines, comprise the second arrangement. Leaf- 

 shaped elements often are expressed negatively in the rectangular 

 fields of black appearing between the vertical lines (fig. 60, h). This 

 leaf-shaped element within a black rectangular field is especially com- 

 mon at the Venado Beach site. Occasionally the bottom horizontal 

 line will be decorated with triangular appendages. 



Another arrangement consists of trianguloid elements pendent from 

 broad black bands at the collar base (fig. 60, i). 



Still another motif is a chevron panel composed of nested triangles 

 of black Hues (fig. 60, j). 



Geographical range. — The exterior-decorated bowls and jars of all 

 varieties of the Escota type appear at the present time to be Hmited 

 to the Code, Santa Maria Eiver, and Canal Zone areas of Panama. 

 A few Escotd type sherds were recovered at He-1, none at He-2, and 

 I know of none from farther west or north. The Black-on-red variety 

 and/or the Black-on-buff variety is illustrated for Sitio Conte, how- 

 ever (Lothrop, 1942, fig. 236), and some of the designs, especially the 

 leaf-shaped element as mentioned above, are very common at the 

 Venado Beach site, e.g., on the shoulders of two jars with tall collars 

 (Peabody Mus. cat Nos. 51-25-20/20373 and 51-25-20/10370) among 

 others. 



Chronological position. — Although two of the fragments illustrated 

 by Lothrop came from an unstratified cache at Sitio Conte, the third 

 (fig, 236, 6), which is a clear example of the leaf -shaped motif 

 mentioned above, came from the Late Period Grave 26. On the 

 other hand, the situation at both the Giron site and Trench 11 of 

 Sitio Conte suggests an earher chronological position, before the 

 development of Code Polychrome, and only possibly during its earlier 

 stages. In addition, at both the He-1 and He-2 sites, where the 

 Gir6n type was the dominant polychrome in the sherd lots, the 

 Escota type was either barely present or missing. This may be due 

 either to contemporary differences in regional preference, or to the 

 fact that the Escota type had largely dropped out of use by the time 

 of the He-1, He-2 occupations, while the closely related Gir6n type 

 continued on in popularity. 



Relationships oj variety.- — In form, that is coUared globular or sub- 

 globular jars, occasionally with angled shoulders, and bowls with 

 incurved rims, the decorated varieties of the Escota type bear smiilari- 

 ties to the later Azuero group as weU as to the Late Period Code jars. 



Bibliography. — See Girdn type, Banded Lip variety. 



