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OF THK PROVlNfK UF CHIRIQUI. 



seen in the fii'st is not easily determined, although we do not hesitate 

 to assign to it an animal origin. There is a suggestion of two sitting 

 figures placed back to back between the ui)right serrate lines. In the 

 second piece, which is from another vessel, the space between the ser- 

 rate lines is occupied by a sketchy figure which, in the jahraseology 

 of heraldry, may be likened to n iiKinkey r;impant. 



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In Figs. 17!t and ISO I present very interesting examples in whicli 

 the arched panels are used. In the first the compartments are occu- 

 pied by a favorite Chiriquian motive, which consists of groups of 



Fin. 180. Vase decorated with higlilj con\ 



lines curled up at one end like unfolding fronds. The whole group 

 represents a very highly conventionalized animal figure (Fig. 179a). 

 The devices occupying the upright iiaucls take the place of the ani- 

 mal heads shown in several precf(liiiL^ ti'^iin'.'^. In tlir arched jjanels 

 shown in Fig. 180 we have the trdiid-iikr nidtive treated in a man- 



