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side of the ridge; but in slender collars there is only one, which emerges from under 

 the shoulder fillet on the side opposite the boss. Sometimes the projection is fer- 

 ruled, often with jiits like eyes, and in one collar the prominence is said to have the 

 form of a snake's head." 



sb. Shoulder ridge. — The shoulder ridge is a i-aised band cut in low relief, jiartly 

 encircling the collar near the base of the projection, which it appears to Ijind to the 

 body of the collar. It is sometimes broad and flat, but more commonly is a narrow 

 bead, and in massive forms where there are two projections it fills the interval 

 between them. Rarel.v absent, it is seldom in high relief. 



dp. Decorated panel. — This term is applied to that region of the collar that lies 

 adjacent to the boss, on the side opposite the projection. While the name is a useful 

 one for distinguishing this part in some specimens, this panel, although smooth, is 

 not ornamented. The general outline of the decorated panel of the oblique-ovate 

 collars is quadrate or trapezoidal, with or without a marginal panel ridge formed by 

 a shallow groove. In the massive forms the outline of this panel is often triangular. 

 The superficial decoration of the panels of massive collars, when present, is less 

 elaborate than that of the slender ones, and consists mainly of pits, incised circles, 

 triangles, or parallel lines. Figures of faces with eyes and mouth are sometimes cut 

 on this panel, which is ordinarily smooth, its surface slightly convex, ami often 

 highly polished. 



dph. Decorated panel border. — The margin of the decorated panel is called the panel 

 border. In oblique-ovate collars this border is cut in the form of a ridge looped into 

 scrolls, often with pits resembling eyes. In massive collars this border is some- 

 times pinched up into three triangles. An examination of the decorated panel bor- 

 der in several specimens of slender collars reveals a conventional face with represen- 

 tations of ear pendants on each side. In others the face and ears appear on the 

 l^anel border, but are more conventionalized. The best specimens of panel border 

 decorations are scroll figures. 



dpg. Decorated panel r/roove. — A groove bounding the decorated panel and separating 

 it from the panel ridge often marks the limit of the panel. In oblique-ovate collars 

 this ridge is generally pinched up into an elevation at one angle of the panel, which 

 is perforated, thus forming one decorated panel border perforation. The object of 

 this perforation (dpbp) is unknown, but the care ^\"ith Avhich the ridge is modified at 

 this point indicates that it must have lieen an important one. INIassive ovate collars 

 have no perforated angle of the panel. 



up. Undecorated panel. — The undecorated panel lies between the shoulder ridge and 

 the boss; it has a panel ridge but no decorated panel border. In massive oval col- 

 lars the undecorated panel is simply a rough, slightly convex plane extending from 

 one of the projections to the pole of the collar, the boss of this variety being absent. 

 In many of the oblique-ovate collars there is an elongated shallow depression in the 

 middle of this panel, but this is absent in the massive type. The meaning of this 

 pit is unknown, but its rough surface suggests that it may have been the place of 

 attachment of an ornament like a nugget of gold or a fragment of shell. On the 

 Acosta theory that a head was formerly attached to the collar, the rough surface of 

 this panel maj- have been the place of union, in which case the pit in the middle of 

 the panel would have served to strengthen tlie attachment. The undecorated panel 

 often has a panel groove (upg) and border (I'j/b), but neither of these is so elabo- 

 rately decorated as the corresponding region of the decorated panel. The rough sur- 

 face of the undecorated panel is constant in all collars, indicating that it was hidden 

 or covered in some way. 



a This specimen is owned by Mr Leopold B. Strube, of Ar.cibo, who has sent the author a drawing 

 which shows the J;nob in the form of a snake's head. 



