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human face with an elaborate headdress. Below is the head of a ser- 

 pent. Another interesting shard of this type is shown in plate 16, h. 

 It is the day sign " 1 Cipactli," or " 1 Couatl." 



b. The most common form of molded decoration is found on round 

 flat-bottomed and straight-sided vessels supported on three short legs 

 and usually of black ware. At intervals around the bottom edge is a 

 row of grotesque human faces, each from the same mold (pi. 15, /, and 

 Boas Album, pi. 59, 11) . The head may be replaced by a more simple 

 design (pi. 16, c) or by a circular pellet of clay (Boas Album, pi. 

 59,13). 



c. Multiple or assembled: Another type of molded decoration 

 shows the different parts of the design to have been made separately 

 and assembled to form a complete design (pi. 16, d). The elaborate 

 chimney braseros would belong to this type. These have been de- 

 scribed under the heading of " Adornos " (p. 43). 



d. Three handles : ^^ One of the common types of Toltec pottery 

 found both here and at San Juan Teotihuacan is shown in plate 15, g. 

 This pottery is unpainted and coarse in texture. It is characterized 

 by three handles projecting upward from the rim. A hole runs ver- 

 tically through the handle, coming out on the outside of the vessel. 

 On the outer side of each handle is a face. This is made separately 

 in a mold and attached to the handle. Disks of clay are usually added 

 at the sides and at the top of the head. The most common form of 

 face is that of an old man, wrinkled and worn. Nineteen of these 

 faces were found. Four were of the " spectacle " type with the spec- 

 tacles on the forehead. Another common type (pi. 16, e) has the 

 arms shown with one hand resting on the face. These faces have often 

 been described as belonging to figurines. Dr. Spinden suggests that 

 it is possible that these vessels were intended to be suspended by ropes 

 running through the holes in the handles. 



e. Molded and punctate : In this class the decoration is composed 

 of a molded figure attached to the piece in combination with a punc- 

 tate or incised design (pi. 16, /). 



Type VI 11^ Fillet afplique. — This type differs from the molded in 

 the fact that the elements of the design seem to have been modeled by 

 the hand or by a sharp stick and attached to the olla. The common 



" Seler (op. eit., pp. 491-496) describes this class exhaustively. He gives a drawing 

 of a portion of one of these bowls reproduced from Gamio (Proc. Inter. Cong, of 

 Americanists, London, 1912, p. 184). He omits, however, Gamio's hypothetical restora- 

 tion, which he does not consider very satisfactory. My photograph (pi. 15, g), which 

 shows a bowl with two handles, the third of which is missing, indicates that Gamio's 

 restoration is correct with the exception that he docs not clearly indicate the usual 

 break made in the outer surface of the bowl by the hole running down through the center 

 of the handle. Seler calls this cla.ss of pottery " bowls with inner handles " (innere 

 Schalengriffe) and considers that they served as covers of incense vessels. It is difficult 

 to see how this is possible. The face shown on the handle on plate 15, g, is the type 

 called by Seler the " ape face." 



