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The specimen shown in Fig. 10:5 is extremely well made and differs 

 decidedly from the preceding. The sides are upright and the lip is 

 recurved and thick. The legs represent some animal form with 

 thick body, eyes at the top, and a tail-like appendage below that 

 turns up and connects with the side of the body. The form of the 

 bowl is symmetrical and the surface carefully finished and polished. 

 The exterior design is divided into panels, as in the preceding case; 

 the figures are simple and geometric. The inside of the upright por- 

 tion of the wall is decorated with vertical lines and bands and the 

 bottom is covered with an octo])us-like figure, now partially obliter- 



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Tlie remarkable example shown in Fig. 19-i illustrates a number 

 of the points suggested in the preceding pages. It is a large bottle 

 of the usual contour and color, mounted upon three high legs, 

 wliich are slit on the inner surface and contain movable balls of 

 clay. Two handles, placed at opposite sides of the neck, represent 

 human or anthropomorphic figures. These figures and the neck and 

 base of the vessel were finished in the red slip. The broad zone ex- 

 tending from the neck to some distance below the periphery was fin- 

 ished in the gray slip, with the exception of the frames of two panels 

 beneath the handles and the foundation lines of two large figures of 

 alligators, which are in red. The surface, when thus treated, was 

 well polished and then a coat of black was laid upon it, and iipon this 

 details of the designs were drawn in the lost color. The figures of 

 the alligators exhibit some striking jieculiarities. The hooked snoiit, 

 the hanging jaw. the row of dotted notches extending along the back, 

 and especially the general curve of the body are worthy of atten- 

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