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has a smooth exterior and interior (pi. 34, g; fig. 20, a). The other 

 has a plain lip also painted red, and a design consisting of six red 

 stripes 0.6 cm. wide and 7.5 cm. long projecting into the dark buff 

 interior. Each stripe is rounded at the end, not blunt or squared off 

 (pi. 34, d; figs. 23, 20, e). The exterior isroughened by combing below 



Figure 23. — Shallow bowl from Bocas del Toro, site 2. Polished dark buff interior 

 decorated with 6 red stripes and red painted lip. Exterior badly eroded but apparently 

 had vertical ridges around middle similar to pi. 34, a. Medium temper. 1 cm. thick. 



the rim, and below this is a row of roughened vertical ridges. In both 

 examples the ware is fairly thick and is grit tempered. The color on 

 the surface is dark buff, weathered a dark brown. 



There were four body sherds of thin, hard, fine paste ware, evenly 

 jBred, with no black core, 0.4 cm. thick. Three of these have a dark- 

 orange (2.5YK, 5/8) (Munsell system) smooth surface, while the other 

 has a burnished-brown (lOYR 3.8/2) exterior surface. These are 

 definitely different from the other sherds. 



There were three sherds of red on buff ware. Two are rims with 

 red-painted lip and fine vertical red lines on the interior of the rim. 

 The sherds are 0.8 and 0.6 cm. thick, respectively. The interior is 

 polished, the exterior rough (pi. 32, /, h). The other example is a 

 body sherd with smooth surface, having painted on it a simple red-line 

 geometric design. The interior is smooth and unpainted buff 

 (pi. 32, e). 



Among the miscellaneous specimens was a low concave vessel 

 support painted red where it joined the body of the vessel. The 

 remainder of the exterior and the interior are buff. The beveled 

 supporting edge is roughened with diagonal scoring (pi. 33, d). 



