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rich mahogany brown slip. The interior of the vessel is of the same 

 polished brown. 



The fundamental points of difference with the El Limon specimens 

 is that the Mojara example has a hollow base, lacks the slender waist, 

 and lacks incising. Also, it is somewhat larger, being OK inches high. 



Dr. S. K. Lothrop kindly called to my attention a number of speci- 

 mens, from near David, in the Peabody Museum, Harvard University 

 (C-2809, C-2813, C-2817, C-2823) which also belong to this class of 

 ware. Dr. Lothrop shares our impression that this is an early type of 

 ware. 



While the small number of specimens from El Limon make specula- 

 tion unsafe, nevertheless we feel that this material, lacking paint and 

 tripod supports, is the earlier form. The simple solid supports of the 

 Chiriqui and Costa Rican sites may well be ancestral to the later 

 developed hollow supports in the same area. The simple application 

 of red paint may be a forerunner of the later elaborate polychrome 

 ware, while the primitive applique work might precede the later more 

 complex type found, for example, on Chiriqui alligator ware. 



The simple scarification and incising of El Limon ware could in 

 turn be an outgrowth from the type of decoration found on the early 

 Monagrillo ware. 



REFERENCES 



Haberland, Wolfgang. 



1960. Cien anos de arqueologia en Panama. Loteria No. 12. Panama. 

 Holmes, W. H. 



1888. Ancient art of the Province of Chiriqui, Colombia. 6th Ann. Ptep. 

 Bur. Amer. Ethnol. for 1884-85, pp. 3-187. 



