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exterior is polished and partially dark brown from carbon. All of these 

 are of hard fine-tempered ware, with black core and buff margins. 

 There was one small pedestal base bowl (pi. 31,/; fig. 19) with three 

 rectangular horizontal slots in the base. The base and the interior 

 of the bowl are polished dark buff ware. The exterior of the bowl 

 has a deep red slip on which were painted black perpendicular stripes 

 extending from the rim to the juncture with the base, 6.8 cm. long. 

 Vestiges of eight stripes can be seen on the portion of the bowl which 

 was found. Whether the stripes encircled the entire bowl or were 

 painted in groups cannot be ascertained. The ware has a fine temper, 

 is rather thin, and is fired to a dark buff on the surfaces with a black 

 core. This was the only pedestal base found. 



Frying-pan incensarios were represented by one specimen, a trans- 

 verse piece broken off from the base of the handle. It is made from a 

 hard fine-tempered ware with a buff polished surface. It is painted 

 red along the edges and has one transverse red line, 0.6 cm. wide 

 (pi. 33, c). Similar but complete examples of this tj^pe were found by 

 us at the Code site of Mojara in Herrera Province. 



Small plain subglobular bowls were represented by seven speci- 

 mens, two of which were more or less complete (pi. 30, c, d). These 

 are rather crudely made from a buff-colored ware. The surface 

 typically is carelessly smoothed. Plate 30, c, has a body diameter of 

 8.4 cm. and a body height of 8.0 cm. Plate 30, d, has a body diameter 

 of 11.0 cm. and a body height of 7 cm. 



Two of the subglobular bowls were polished brown, one polished 

 dark buff, and another buff with a red lip. Most had small outflaring 

 rims, some with rolled lips. Some were carbonized on the exterior 

 from having been on an open fire. The rim variations can best be 

 seen from the illustrations (pi. 33, a, b, e, /). One variation consisted 

 of a combed exterior with a crude rectangular pattern and small 

 nodes on the shoulder (pi. 31, b). 



There were eight examples of bowls with vertical strap handles. 

 Judging from the fragments found, these had been low hemispherical 

 bowls with outflaring rims to which were attached a pair of opposing 

 strap handles (pi. 31, a, c, d, ^; fig. 21, e, f, g, b). 



Plate 31, a, is made of polished dark buff ware weathered brown 

 in places. The lip of the rim is painted red and extends 1 cm. onto the 

 top of the strap handle. Directly in front of the strap handle on the 

 interior of the outflaring rim are six vertical red lines, 0.2 cm. wide, 3 

 cm. long. The strap handle was modeled and stuck on the pot care- 

 lessly. It is 3.5 cm. wide. 



Plate 31, c, is buff ware with a rim painted red extending 0.4 cm. 

 down the exterior of the bowl and 0.4 cm. onto the strap handle, 

 where it joins the rim. There is an irregular spot of red paint on the 



