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EXCAVATION AT SANTIAGO AHUITZOTLA, MEXICO 



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Type /, Archcvic white. — The Archaic culture is very poorly repre- 

 sented in the pottery from this site. The most common Archaic 

 type noted here is that decorated on both sides with a white slip. 

 There is usually no other decoration. In some cases, however, the 

 pieces have roufrhly incised lines. The yellow base with red and 

 white design and the brown base with red and white design, two 

 common Archaic types from Zacatenco and Ticoman, are not found 

 here (for Archaic painted pottery, see Boas 

 Album, pis. 41, 47. 48). 



Type II, Ineised. — There is a large variety 

 of decoration made by incised lines and it 

 has been thought well to classify this into 

 subtypes. 



a. The most common form of incised pot- 

 tery consists of low dishes, with flat bottoms 

 and straight sides, and low bowls mostly of 

 cream color or light yellow and occasionally 

 black (pi. 15, a, h, and Boas Album, pi. 62). 

 The design is of rough volutes or spirals 

 along a band on the outside near the top. 

 In a few cases the part covered by the design 

 is red and the rest of the dish is yellow.^° 



b. Small flat-bottomed dishes Avitli straight 

 sides of a fine red polished Avare. The most 

 common designs are spirals and curves 

 usually covering all of the outside. They 

 are cut through the red slips, showing the 

 yellow base (Boas Album, pi. 63, 1-5). 



c. A red polished ware with the design of 

 birds and animals scratched very deeply into 

 the base (Boas Album, pi. 63, 13). 



d. Brown base and slip with the design 

 deeply incised and red paint rubbed into the 

 lines of the design. This type is represented 

 only by one shard. 



e. Flat-bottomed dishes of black ware with 

 straight sides and three short legs. Tlie designs are elaborate and 

 the background is often cut away (pi. 15, c, and Boas Album, pi. 

 63, 16). Figure 5 is a very fine example of this type, showing a 

 warrior or god with an elaborate speech scroll and a vulture as 

 a headdress. 



5. — Incised shard. 

 Type Tie. 



'" The following types of Archaic incised pottery are not represented in this site 

 The heavy rimmed bowls in red with very faint and very roughly incised lines aroun( 

 the outside or inside (Boas Album, pis. 38. 0-18), and the thin brown or black ware witl 

 incised designs very badly made (Boas Album, pi. 54, 12, 15-18). 



