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Figure 3. — Incised brown ware. 



Plate 8, b, illustrates a somewhat different effigy, not of brown ware 

 but of a red-orange slipped red ware similar to that discussed under 

 the consideration of decorated sherds below. This is a four-legged 

 effigy bowl, 11.5 cm. high. It is a grotesque animal of compound 

 type, possibly a jaguar with "spots" of reed punched design. Also 

 notable is the indication of five toes on each foot and prominent 

 (pectoral?) musculature. Realism is confused by the broken rem- 

 nant of a "horn" immediately above the nose. 



Figure 4 shows several other vessels of the various shapes and 

 design patterns that occur. Incised chalices or pedestal bowls are 



