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Surface. — Design area surfaces are well smoothed and have a low 

 polish. The vessel exteriors are red slipped (or wash) except for the 

 design area which remains a buff. Lips are covered with the same 

 red wash which sometimes extends well down into the vessel interior. 

 Red hues vary from a light red (Maerz and Paul, "nasturtium," 

 plate 4, 1-12) to deeper colors (Maerz and Paul, "Korean" or 

 "Moroccan," plate 5, J-11, K-11). Below the red Up band a broad 

 (4-6 cms.) black band encircles the vessel. Within this black band 

 are long (6-11 cms. in horizontal length) buff chevron designs that 

 take up most of the width of the band. 



Geographical range. — ^Lothrop does not illustrate any vessels with 

 the chevron design of this variety although there may have been 

 some sherds present at Sitio Conte, and it apparently was not present 

 at the Venado Beach site. It appears that this variety, also missing 

 at He-1 and He-2 and with minimal occurrence at the Gir6n site, 

 was neither widespread nor long lasting. I do not know of any 

 reports of its presence to the west or north. 



Chronological position. — In the light of the evidence of Pit 1 at the 

 Gir6n site, the variety's existence was probably short and relatively 

 late in the Escota time span (see chart 9). 



Relationships of variety. — Although the chevron motif is a common 

 one in most complexes of pottery characterized by geometrical designs, 

 there do not appear to be any significant relationships outside of the 

 Escota type. 



Bibliography. — Same as that for the Black-on-red variety. 



ESCOTi. type; red variety 



Sample. — 1,044 sherds. 



Paste. — Temper and general characteristics are the same as that 

 for the polychrome except that the Red variety rates as somewhat 

 harder, between 4 and 5 on Mohs' scale. 



Shapes. — The shapes include: deep bowls with everted lips (fig. 63, 

 a-c) ; high coUared jars (fig. 63, i); short, everted collared jars (fig. 63, 

 d, h) ; open bowls or plates with unmodified lips (fig. 63, j-l) ; open 

 bowls or plates with flanged Ups (fig. 63, e-g); and various minor 

 rim and lip forms as illustrated in figure 63, m, n. 



Surface. — Both interior and exterior surfaces are usually smoothed 

 and plate and coUar interiors have a burnished appearance. The 

 red slip used on both interior and exterior surfaces is very thin, 

 almost a wash, and was applied unevenly so that the basic paste color 

 shows through in streaks. 



Often the red shp is apphed selectively, only as far as Up edges or 

 only on the interior or exterior rather than both surfaces. Occasion- 

 ally it is Hmited to the lip, or a band extending just below the hp. 



