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outside, as it seems, all tiie pieces were oritjfinall}' smeared over with 

 a white earth, which usuall}^ nearly covered even the prominent details 

 of the face mask. 



Shapes like those of the vessels represented here were naturally not 



Fig. 13. Bowls from Guatemala. 



an original invention. One can imagine that they originated in ves- 

 sels like (7, figure l-l, and that the latter shape arose from the need I 

 of distinguishing the back from the front. But one can also consider | 

 them as survivals of whole-figui-e vessels, which seems to me more 



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