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beach stones, and a yellow flint arrowhead of the rough prismatic form 

 characteristic of Veraguas and Code sites (pis. 51, 52). 



In the 12-24 inch level was another oval legless metute, and two 

 peculiar well-made large polished stone "axes" of an oval shape. 

 In this level there was also an interesting carved stone bird effigy 

 7.5 cm. long (pi. 51), and a second large prismatic flint arrowhead. 

 Near this was a deposit consisting of several hundred unworked 

 sharks' teeth. 



CERAMICS 



The potsherds were broken into relatively small fragments in both 

 trenches, and not a single complete vessel was found. In trench 2 at a 

 depth of 20 inches was a small red-painted subglobular jar, broken into 

 many pieces but almost complete. 



Typical pottery forms are globular and subglobular bowls with 

 restricted orifices, hemispherical bowls, and oUa shapes with out- 

 flaring rims or collared necks. More elaborate vessels were pedestal 

 and ring base bowls. Some of the pedestal bases are short and squat, 

 others tall and slender. 



The pedestal bowls were typically decorated with black and white 

 designs on an orange base. The designs were sometimes on the ex- 

 terior, sometimes on the interior of the bowls. Frequently, red paint 

 alone was used on the interior, the exterior, or both. Often it was 

 applied only to the lip or the neck of the vessel. Simple designs in 

 black were sometimes put on the red base. 



There were two types of red paint used; one a true dark red, the 

 other an orange which varied in tone from yellowish to red. The two 

 shades occasionally were applied on the same vessel to give a contrast- 

 ing design. 



Sometimes white or cream was used as a base, with designs in red 

 or orange. In at least one instance the orange designs were outlined 

 with narrow black lines. 



Modeled designs were infrequent. Some subglobular bowls were 

 decorated with curving, parallel, raised ridges impressed with scallop 

 shells. These vessels had horizontal loop handles. Sherds from two 

 plain red bowls of thin hard ware were decorated with rows of raised 

 bosses. Incising was rather common and was usually in connection 

 with zoned designs. Punctate decorations were almost invariably of 

 the zoned variety. 



Large ollas often were decorated with brushing or scallop combing, 

 especially on the necks. The best idea of the pottery and decorative 

 techniques can be obtained from the illustrations and plate descrip- 

 tions. 



