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EES Gare eee | 
Oo Wi 20 Som 
RIM SCALE 
Lp t | 
Oo 4 8 #(2CM 
VESSEL |! SCALE 
en ESE 
oO 8 6 24 CM 
VESSEL 2 SGALE 
Ficure 103.—Rim profiles and reconstructed vessel shapes of Erefoimo Painted, 
Wai Wai Phase. 
2. Jar with flat base, walls upsloping to a rounded shoulder, then 
insloping to concave neck, everted rim and rounded lip. Mouth 
diameter 54 em. Decoration on exterior of neck (fig. 103-2). 
DECORATION (pl. 49, f-g; fig. 104): 
Technique: Painted after firing with vegetable dyes: black derived from 
tree sap and red derived from uructé (Bixa orellana). After painting, the 
vessel is heated and coated with resin to give a glaze and protect the paint. 
The interior is sometimes painted but not coated so that decoration is 
more fugitive and tends to fade with use. Lines are unequal in width, 
ranging from 3 to 7 mm. on the same vessel, somewhat crooked and not 
equally spaced or perfectly parallel. On a few sherds the resin glaze 
was not applied to the entire surface but daubed on with the fingertip, 
creating a definite pattern due to the fact it turned a greenish black. 
Motif: Straight lines combined in a variety of ways. None of the vessels 
represented duplicates of any of the others in pattern. The motifs in- 
clude: (1) zoned parallel lines, in which a band is divided by a zigzag line 
into triangular areas containing parallel lines; (2) a band divided by a 
zigzag line into triangular areas, which are filled with V-lines paralleling 
the angle of the zigzag; (3) rectangular areas filled with diagonal cross- 
hatch (cf. Hrefoimo Incised) ; (4) double, square spiral, the arms of which 
are composed of two parallel lines Joined with cross lines forming a series 
of small squares. Designs cover the exterior and are carried across the 
bottom. 
TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES WITHIN THE TYPE: None. 
CHRONOLOGICAL POSITION OF THE TYPE: 
A minor type in archeological and ethnographic sites. 
