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Stoddard (1954), were quite common at the site. In general, they 

 conform to WiUey and Stoddard's description (that is, buff vessels 

 with red daubs, dribbles, teardrop designs and bands around the lip), 

 but the red often verges on purple at the He-1 site. Also at He-1, 

 collar exteriors and vessel interiors usually showed signs of brushing 

 or scoring. The vessels differ from the Red Line type examples illus- 

 trated by Lothrop in that Sitio Conte vessels often had loop handles 

 whereas the handles of the Red Daubed variety at He-1 invariably 

 were of the strap shape. The following four shapes were character- 

 istic of the variety at He-1 : 



1. Wide-mouthed collared subglobular jars without handles (pi. 

 10, c). Bases are rounded. The lip is usually banded with red, often 

 the only decoration, and the shoulders or upper body of the vessel are 

 decorated with paired or triple teardrop elements. Size of the vessel 

 ranges from small (about 7 cms. in diameter) to medium (15-20 cm 

 in diameter) with heights about one-half to two-thirds of the di- 

 ameter. Complete vessels (Finds 14-c, U-j, 16-17-a, 24-4, 24-8, 24-9, 

 26-4, 45-c, and 48-6). Additional examples (possibly unfinished) in 

 buff but without decoration are 14-6, 16-6, and 23-a. This shape has 

 both Early and Late associations at this site. 



2. Wide-mouthed collared jars with strap handles (pi. 10, d). The 

 jar body, especially in the large examples, is high shouldered with a 

 somewhat pointed base, although squat in overall dimensions. Han- 

 dles, usually two opposed, are placed vertically on the shoulders al- 

 most touching the rim. In the large examples, the collars are rela- 

 tively high and straight. Decoration consists of a red band around 

 the lip and a series of red dribbles of paint running vertically from the 

 lip down both the interior and exterior of the collar and over the 

 shoulder. 



Large vessels (diameters of 40-60 cms. and heights of 25-30 cms.; 

 Finds 1 and 21-/) and small to medium sized vessels (with diameters 

 of 14-20 cms.; Finds 21-c, 24-24, and 44-a) both occur. Associations 

 of strap-handled jars at He-1 are Early. 



3. Plates and incensarios. The one complete plate had an unmodi- 

 fied lip and was round based with a diameter of 16 cms. and a height 

 of 4 cms. (Find 14-6). The incensarios range in size from small 

 (diameter 9 cms.) to medium (diameter 20 cms.) and are identical in 

 shape to those illustrated from Sitio Conte (Lothrop, 1942, figs. 

 354-355, a); that is, with two luglike feet and fishtail handles. The 

 find numbers of the He-1 incensarios are Finds 21-e, 24-11, 24-15, 

 24-23, and 42. The Red Daubed incensario form associations are 

 Early at He-1. 



4. Constricted orifice collared jars. These may be variations of the 

 wide-mouthed shape since the two examples (Finds 18-c and 24-5) 



