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Neat borders have been applied to both interior and exterior surfaces. 

 They are suggestive of patterns produced through the technique of tex- 

 tile products, and consist of interrupted forms of the meander. I have 

 restored from small fragments in this aud other cases, for the reason 

 that no large fragments of the finer vessels are preserved. 



Fig. 274.— Bowl: Bio San Juan. 



Fig. 275 illustrates a very pleasing vessel. It is hemispherical, and 

 about eleven inches in diameter. A narrow zone of ornament based 

 upon the meander encircles the exterior margin of the rim, and a broad, 

 carefully drawn design, consisting of two parallel meanders, Fig. 276, 

 occupies the interior. It will be seen that the meandered fillets are 

 in white, and the bordering stripes and the upper aud lower rows of 



Fig. 275. — Bowl: Bio San JuaD. 



triangular interspaces are in solid black, while the median band and its 

 connecting triangles are obliquely striped. It should be noticed that 

 the oblique portions of the meanders are indented or stepped. This is 

 a very usual occurrence in these decorations, and may be taken as a 

 pretty decided indication that they were copied, more or less directly, 



