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Find 4. Modeled polychrome "dog" head and a bone awl. 

 Find 7. Large Ortiga variety sherd with frog handles. 

 Find 349. Red-buff collared jar, class "a"; diameter 22 cm. 

 Find 352. Two collars, one for a polychrome vessel, probably Ortiga variety. 

 Find 380. Small coUarless jar with horizontal loop handles; diameter range 8.5- 

 12 cm.; Red-bufif ware. 



MOUND II 



Find 10. Located in Mound II, Trench 2, at depth of 40-70 cm. or more; north 

 2.3-1.5 m.; west 1.2-1.3 m. 



10-1-10-8 and five additional specimens in Panama (Finds 10-3&-10-41) ; 

 were 13 globular bottles, Jobo variety; diameters 14-15 cm. 



10-9-10-16 and nine additional specimens in Panama (Finds 10-27-10-35) ; 

 16 wingless bird jars, Jobo variety; diameters 12-14 cm. 



10-17. Bird jar with wings, Jobo variety; diameter 14 cm. 



10-18. Collared jar, Red-buff, class "a"; diameter 21 cm. 



10-19, 10-20, 10-22-10-26. Seven miniature (diameters ca. 8 cm.) jars with 

 flared or straight collars; chalky buff ware with rough gritty surface. 



10-21. Red-buff coUarless jar with loop handles; diameter in 8.5-12 cm. 

 range. 



OUa 1. Red-buff class "e" collared jar with four vertical loop handles; 

 diameter ca. 60 cm. 



011a 2. Red-buff class "e" collared jar with at least two horizontal loop 

 handles; interior of base is carbonized; diameter ca. 50 cm. Cover: 

 open bowl with flared rim and short flaring base; diameter 26.5 cm.; 

 interior blackened and vessel found inverted over mouth of olla; 

 no other vessel like this is known from the site. 



Olla 3. Large jar with an estimated diameter of 80 cm.; so badly crushed in 

 situ that it was not saved; probably a Red-buff class "e" jar. 



Olla 4. Large unslipped collared jar (height 56 cm.; diameter 42 cm.) 

 with four vertical double loop handles placed equidistantly about the 

 shoulder. 

 Olla 5. Red-buff class "e" collared jar with four horizontal loop handles; 

 diameter estimated in 50-60 cm. range. Cover: open bowl or dish 34 

 cm. in diameter; 10 cm. deep; unmodified lip and rim; rounded base; 

 from near center of base exterior two loop handles extended at right 

 angles to each other; base interior not blackened and both interior 

 and exterior surfaces are roughly smoothed but unslipped, retaining 

 the brick -red color of the pastel; found inverted over Olla 5. 



Bone. Carved manatee bones (pi. 1, a-c), burned bones, necklace of per- 

 forated human teeth. 



Comment. Find 10 is one of the larger find units of the site, containing 

 about 50 pottery vessels, ornaments, and the remains of at least 15 

 individuals. All the bird jars and bottles were found inverted in a 

 group at a level of 40 cm. or slightly above the 60 cm. level of the urns. 

 The carved manatee bone batons were also recovered at the 40 cm. 

 level, about half way between the group of small vessels and Olla 1. 

 The latter contained the bones of apparently three individuals and a 

 necklace of 737 perforated human teeth and was surrounded by a 

 pile of ashes and some burned bones. 



Olla 2 was crammed full of bones, apparently the remains of two 

 adults and one young person and, in addition, contained a small 

 necklace of perforated human teeth and a conical bone object; included 

 among the bones were three jaws but no skulls. 



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