100 A STUDY OF CHIRIQUIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



composite vessels in order to avoid mistaking them for illustrations of bowls that 

 are stacked for the purpose of saving space. 



One vase in this group is mounted on four legs (fig. c). To complete the 

 zoomorphic unit, a head and tail are applied on opposite sides below the rim. 

 The carapace motive on either side proves that the animal represented is the 

 armadillo. The artist, however, took some liberty with his motive, making the 

 lines in the anterior and posterior sections of the carapace run longitudinally 

 instead of transversely. A graceful form of tripod is to be seen in figure d. The 

 legs are rather long for this group, but are solid like all the others. They probably 

 represent the armadillo, the head of which is indicated by the prominence at 

 the hip. 



The bell-shaped, flat-bottomed tripod vase with legs missing (fig. e) is an inter- 

 esting type. The bottom is smooth. The sides are divided into two unequal zones 

 of scarifications, an upper and a lower, by a horizontal painted band near the 

 top. The lower zone is itself divided into three fields by means of three vertical 

 painted bands. The scarified surfaces were left unpainted. These give the effect 

 of having been produced by the impress of some textile fabric. Two lizard-like 

 forms in relief, on opposite sides, complete the decoration. 



The entire surface above the feet of one small tripod (fig. /) is scarified in a 

 manner that suggests the warp and weft of basketry. Figure g is interesting in 

 that one of the vertical scarified bands which encompass the body of the vessel 

 was left unfinished. And yet this tripod had seen considerable service over 

 the fire. 



THE MAROON GROUP. 



Holmes called one group of Chiriquian pottery the maroon group " for want 

 of a better name." He figures four out of a total of not more than a dozen 

 pieces in the National Museum. The collection in the Yale University Museum 



Fig. 170. — Vase with loop handles strongly resembling Fig. 171.— Vase ornamented with scarifications 



that shown in figure 164; from Caldera. Maroon alternating with pairs of vertical punctate 



ware. '/» ribs. Maroon ware. V« 



numbers perhaps no more. Mention has already been made of the difficulty 

 experienced in deciding whether certain specimens belonged to this or to the 

 scarified group, and in that connection figure 170 was fully described (p. 97). 

 The paste of which the piece represented in figure 171 is composed, resembles 

 very closely that in the scarified ware, except that it is somewhat finer. Moreover, 



