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A STUDY OF CHIRIQUIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



miles west-northwest of David. A single specimen from the environs of David, 

 somewhat similar to the former, is figured by Alphonse Pinart. 1 



Fig. 162. — Tripod with incised panels on shoulder 

 and short supports representing animal heads ; from 

 Divala. Chocolate incised ware. V 2 



Fig. 163. — Very small tripod with unbroken 

 incised pattern around shoulder, and short 

 solid supports. Chocolate incised ware. '/■ 



THE SCARIFIED GROUP. 



The scarified group numbers twenty specimens in all. Sixteen are tripods, 

 three have convex bottoms, and one is fiat-bottomed. A slightly raised marginal 

 flange in the last-named has preserved the fiat bottom from wear. All are covered 

 with a uniform coat of maroon paint, which in most cases is spread over the 

 surface of the interior also. The paint was applied after the scarifications had 

 been made and, as a rule, the scratched areas were not painted. The region 

 bounded by the feet of the tripods is always left smooth. 



A majority of the pieces come from a 

 locality twenty-five miles northwest of David, 

 at the head-waters of a stream called in 

 McNiel's notes, Rio Chiriagua. Seven or 

 eight are from Caldera about twenty miles 

 northeast of David, and the large fiat-bottomed 

 vessel (see PI. XXVI, fig. a) came from a 

 locality noted by McNiel as being at lati- 

 tude 8° 34' N. and longitude 82° 26' W. of 

 Greenwich, i. e., about eight or ten miles 

 north of David. The pottery of this same 

 group described by Holmes came from the 

 graves of the two other localities, " one near 

 C. E. Taylor's hacienda, north of David, on 

 the slopes of Mount Chiriqui, and the other 

 at Alanje, southwest of David.' 1 Specimens 

 of this ware are therefore fairly well distributed over the province of Chiriqui, 

 although found in relatively small numbers. 



Fig. 164.— Non-scarified vase with handles crudely 

 representing animal forms ; from Caldera 

 Scarified ware. 7 2 



1 Les indiens de l'Etat de Panama. Rev. d'ethnogr., 125, fig. 20, 1887. 



