A.NCIKNT AKT OF THE l'Kl)\ r> 



animal forms with wliicli the legs are embellished. Ear-li les< is rep- 

 resented as a complete animal, whose back or breast siip]ioits tlic ves- 



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Fig. li"). Triporl witli owl-like heails at iuser 

 tion of legs j. 



sel and whose cylindrical nether extremity rests upon the ground. 

 The head in the iirst example resembles an owl and in the second 

 reminds one of some crustacean form. An additional specimen of 



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considerable interest is shown m Fig. 1-JT. It is a heavy tripod, hav- 

 ing four independent mouths, all opening into one c handier. The 

 shape is unsatisfactory, being heavy and unsymmetrical. The exte- 

 rior surface has the usual scarified figures and the interspaces and 

 the entire inner surface of the vessel are painted red and rather care- 

 fully polished. 



The handled group. — The series of vessels to which this name is 

 given comprises a large number of pieces of unusually even characters. 



