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decoration is shifted to the shoulder, neck and handles, there being no supports 

 to decorate. In shape, the body of the vase is often identical with that of the 

 tripod. To convert a tripod into a vase, one has but to remove the applied 

 supports. To make the kinship more apparent, shoulder ornaments or handles 

 are sometimes added to the tripods (see figs. 65 and 83). Such additions, especially 

 of handles, are quite rare. 



Fig. 71. — Tripod bowl with solid fishlike supports. 

 Armadillo ware. V" 



Fig. 72. — Bowl with annular base ; from El Banco. 

 Armadillo ware. '/> 



Another form of support suggested itself in the annular base or foot, as seen 

 in a specimen (fig. 72) from El Banco. This form of foot, like the feet of the 

 tripod, increased in size, was sometimes made hollow, slit, and supplied with pellets, 

 as in figure 73, a handsome goblet-shaped vessel from Bugavita. The latter specimen 

 has a greasy smoky exterior, the blackest part being the concave bottom of the base. 



Fig. 73. — Goblet-shaped vessel; from Bugavita. 

 Armadillo ware. '/' 



Fig. 74. — Bowl supported by annular base 

 and human figures. Armadillo ware. V» 



In the specimen exhibited in figure 74, the bowl is supported not only by an 

 annular base but also by three fantastic human forms. There is a hand at either 

 end of each long arm, making four in all — two resting on the head and two on 

 the stomach. The thorax is eliminated. Two animal heads adorn the rim, and 

 pellets convert the hollow base into a rattle. 



Legs and annular bases alike were put on after the bowl was shaped but 

 before the application of the slip and the polish. Handles, plain and ornamental, 



