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A STUDY OF CHIRIQUIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



also affords an indication of the diversity in shape and dimensions of the rim. 

 Two monkeys with hands on shoulders and with the long tail brought forward 

 and across the chest sit on the shoulder of the vase in figure a. The green 

 lizard is treated more or less realistically in figure b. Two catlike creatures, each 

 chasing the tail of its mate, are reproduced in figure c. A remarkable form of 

 vase may be seen in figure cl. The diameter of the body is only two-thirds that 

 of the rim. The latter is bell-shaped and finished in a perimetric roll. A similar 

 rolling of the rim upon itself is shown in figure e. The plastic figure on the 

 shoulder may be the armadillo, since carapace motives are placed both transversely 

 and longitudinally on its back. The shoulder ornament in figure / probably 

 represents a bird. 



A number of small cups with single handle are included in the biscuit or armadillo 

 group. The smallest of these cups has a capacity of only six cubic centimeters, 



Fig. 109. 



Fig. in. 



—Cup with zobmorphic handle decoration. Armadillo 



Fig. 113. 



—Cup with decoration on handle probably representing a human head. Armadillo ware. 7« 



— Example of anthropomorphic handle decoration. Armadillo ware. 7' 



— Cup with grotesque human figure serving as handle. Armadillo ware. 7< 

 —Another treatment of the same motive, the nose being developed into a proboscis. Armadillo ware. 



Cup with handle decoration suggesting the human form with nose developed into a proboscis. 



madillo ware. '!■ 



