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A STUDY OF CHIRIQUIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



mouth. The figure on the opposite side (fig. 126) holds the right hand to the 

 chin and supports it there by grasping the wrist with the left hand. 



The life forms in figures 127 and 128 are probably human also. The handle 

 in the latter vase is a single loop spanning the orifice. In figure 129, the two 

 grotesque forms attached to the shoulder take the place of handles. They are 

 unlike. One is the armadillo with tip of nose hidden behind the forefeet, and 

 with two incised fillets representing the carapace, one applied longitudinally be- 

 ginning at the top of the head, and the other, horizontally about the back of the 

 neck. The other figure is a cross between the human and the ape. The plastic 

 decorative motive in figure 130 is similar to one already noted in the armadillo 

 group of ware (see fig. 97 and PL XVI, fig. a) — a somewhat reduced and simpli- 

 fied head surrounded by an incised fillet, suggesting the carapace motive. The 

 surface below the collar of this vase is smoked and sooty, a condition common 

 to this group, at least seventy-five per cent of which have been used over the fire. 



As has been already stated, not all vases of the handled ware have handles, 

 figure 131 being an example. It has a well-developed collar. The body is given 



Fig. 131. — Vase with well-developed collar but 

 without handles. Painted handled ware. 'I* 



Fig. 132. — Vase without handles, 

 handled ware. */> 



a solid coat of red paint, while neck and collar were left untouched. Another 

 vase without handles is reproduced in figure 132. The arched panels on the 

 sides are not unlike those seen in the lost color ware. 



THE TRIPOD OR FISH GROUP. 



Mention has already been made of the affinity between this group and the handled 

 ware, which consists chiefly in a similarity of paste, scant use of slip, the 

 kind of paint used and the method of applying it, and the fact that a large 

 majority of vessels in both groups bear sooty incrustations. 



There are also some fairly well-marked differences to be noted. The bowls of 

 the tripods average smaller than those of the handled group. With few excep- 

 tions, the type of rim or lip is quite different, the typical tripod rim being at all 

 points in the same horizontal plane and recurved outward upon itself. The descent 

 from the outer edge of the rim to the orifice is a gentle convex curve. The 



