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368-18. Red-buff pot cover with loop handle in center; diameter 3.4 cm. 



368-19. Red-buff miniature coUarless jar with two opposed projections from 

 shoulder, one vertical and one horizontal; diameter 4.6 cm. 



368-20. Small Red-buff jar with loop handles and short collar; diameter 

 range 8.5-12 cm. 



368-28, 368-29. Two Red-buff miniature collared jars, class "a"; diameter 

 5-7.5 cm. 



368-33, 368-34. Two Red-buff miniature pedestal plates; diameter range 

 6.5-8 cm. 



Comment. In addition to the ceramic material listed above, the unit also 

 contained fragments of human bone, a crushed adult male skull 

 ("probably associated") and four jade beads. This seems a sur- 

 prisingly meager human accompaniment to a grave containing so many 

 elaborate polychrome vessels. The find also included a miniature 

 stone celt with beveled edges. 

 Find 369. Located in Mound VII, Trench 7, at depth of 2.5-3.0 m.; north 1.0- 

 1.7 m.; west 1.4 m. to east wall. 



369-1. Polychrome collared jar with angled shoulder; Cuipo variety; 

 diameter 13 cm. 



369-2. Miniature polychrome collared jar; Pica-pica variety; diameter 6 cm. 



369-3. Small polychrome collared jar; Pica-pica variety; diameter 7.5 cm. 



369-7, 369-21-369-25, 369-34. Seven Red-buff coUarless jars with horizontal 

 loop handles; diameter range 5.7-16.5 cm. 



369-8, 369-9, 369-12, 369-14, 369-26-369-33. Twelve Red-buff collared jars 

 ranging in diameter from 5-14 cm.; 10 of them fall within the 7-12 cm. 



369-20. Red-buff jar with vertical loop handles; rim undescribed; diameter 

 12.5 cm. 



369-11, 369-35-369-40. Seven small Red-buft" pedestal plates; diameters 

 10-14.5 cm. 



369-18. Miniature Red-buff open bowl, shallow; diameter 7.2 cm. 



369-10, 369-16. Two small Red-buff bird jars, similar in shape to El Hatillo 

 polychrome, Achote variety, examples except for size; diameters 8.5- 

 9.5 cm. 



369-4, 369-5. Two small Red-buff globular bottles similar to El Hatillo 

 polychrome bottles in shape; diameters 9-10 cm. 



369-6. Small Red-buff pyramid-shaped bottle similar to Cerit6 variety 

 polychrome examples in shape; diameter 11 cm. 



369-13, 369-41. Two small Red-buff loop-handled pot covers; diameters 

 9.5 and 4.6 cm. 



369-16, 369-17. Fragments of two polished black Smoked ware pedestal 

 open bowls with flattened and/or grooved rims ; one is possibly a Sangre 

 variety vessel; diameters estimated ca. 20 cm. 



369-19. Miniature Smoked ware tripod open bowl with gutter rim; diam- 

 eter 4.4 cm. 



Comment. The only other contents of the unit mentioned in the field notes 

 consist of a fragment of a spoon or pipe of bone. This unit combines 

 Pica-pica and Cuipo polychrome vessels with Red-buff vessels sharing 

 shapes with the El Hatillo and Cerit6 polychrome varieties, a sug- 

 gested contemporaneity of Macaracas and El Hatillo types which is at 

 variance with the stratigraphic evidence. Possibly these particular 

 vessel shapes, the pyramid bottle, globular bottle, and bird jar shapes, 

 were developed earlier in the Red-buff wares, or the three polychrome 

 vessels may have been heirlooms. Aside from the polychromes, 



