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the discovery : " The corpse after being enclosed in the best blankets (mantas), 

 and decorated with golden ornaments, was suspended over a fire, and the grease 

 dropping out, carefully collected into earthen vessels ; when dry, the body was 

 interred, or, in some districts, preserved above ground." 



Beginning with the more primitive forms, figure 55, from El Banco, resembles 

 in shape an oblong wooden cup with rectangular rim. Another elongated form 

 of equally rude workmanship is given in figure 56. The wooden angularity of 

 outline, however, has disappeared, the rim being oblong and developed at one 

 end into a diminutive handle which suggests the stem of a fruit, of which the 

 vessel itself would represent one half. It comes from Divala, twenty-five miles 

 west-northwest of David. 



Fig. 55 



Fig. 58. 



Fig. 59- 



Fig. 55 



Fig. 56 



Fig. 57 



Fig. 58 



Fig 59 



Primitive rectangular bowl ; from El Banco. Armadillo ware. l h 

 — Primitive elongated bowl with small handle ; from Divala. Armadillo ware. 7» 

 — Calabash type of cup with diminutive handle ; from near Bugavita. Armadillo ware. V" 

 — Hemispherical bowl with spoutlike projection of rim ; from near Bugavita. Armadillo ware, 'h 

 — Calabash type of bowl with no projection of rim. Armadillo ware. '/• 



The hemispherical cup reproduced in figure 57 is related to the foregoing type, 

 although of superior workmanship. Its prototype was the vessel made from part 

 of a gourd or from the fruit of the calabash tree (Crescentia cujete). A slight pro- 

 jection at one point on the rim may represent the stem of the fruit, as well as a 

 handle that is practically functionless because of its small size. In figure 58, the 

 rim projection is not only much increased but is grooved so as to form a sort 

 of spout instead of handle. These last two pieces are from the same locality (six 

 miles northwest of Bugavita). Figure 59 is an example of the calabash type without 

 any rim protuberances. 



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