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EscoTA polychrome; crosshatched variety 



Sample. — 266 sherds. 



Paste. — Same as the Black-on-red variety. 



Shapes. — Like the Black-on-red variety, the most common shape 

 is that of the large collared jar with angled shoulder and a tall, straight, 

 flaring collar. Another form is the simple collarless jar (or bowl; the 

 orifice is very wide) with an incurved rim and unmodified lip. One 

 sherd with an apparently recurved collar (the lip or upper portion 

 was missing) was found (fig. &2,f-h). 



Surface. — The surface has a chalky feel and is well smoothed on the 

 exterior to a dull rather than a polished finish. The interior often 

 shows prominent scrapings or striations. Shoulders are generally 

 buff in ground color; collar exteriors and interiors, and the body below 

 the shoulder, are covered with a thin red wash or shp. This red wash 

 may stop about three-quarters of the way down the interior of the 

 collar. The most common buff shade corresponds to plate 13, 7-D, 

 "oak-buff," with a range B to H and 8 to 6 in the Maerz and Paul 

 color chart. The red slip of the collar and vessel base corresponds to 

 Maerz and Paul's "Korean red," plate 5, J-11 and "Moroccan red," 

 plate 5, K-11. 



The decoration is limited to the upper half of the vessel body and 

 consists of black crosshachure in hourglass-shaped elements. Gener- 

 ally a black line encircles the vessel at the juncture of neck and body 

 forming a border between the red wash of the collar and the buff of 

 the upper body. Another similar black Une or band encircles the 

 body at the shoulder angle, forming a border between the buff and the 

 red of the lower body. The hourglass-shaped elements (probably 

 two, although possibly four) occur between these two borders and are 

 connected to them with the vertical axis of the hourglass running 

 parallel to the vertical axis of the vessel (fig. 60,/). 



Geographical range. — In general, the comments made about the 

 Black-on-red variety hold for the present one with the exception of 

 the Venado Beach site where this variety does not appear to be as 

 common as the former. An example of this variety at Sitio Conte 

 is illustrated in Lothrop, 1942, figure 237. 



Chronological position. — It is probably the same as that for the 

 Black-on-red variety. The Crosshatched variety vessel illustrated 

 by Lothrop for Sitio Conte (Lothrop, 1942, fig. 237) came from Cache 

 7, an undated cache, the illustrated vessels of which are Escotfi, 

 Gir6n (ibid., fig. 239, a), or plastic decorated ware (ibid., fig. 345, g). 



Relationships of variety. — See the Black-on-red variety. 



Bibliography. --See the Gir6n type, Banded Lip variety. 



