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A STUDY OF CHIRIQUIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



triangular space in which the eye is set. With this head triangle as a center, 

 the boundary lines are simply continued to form the other parts. The legs are 

 eliminated. The body and tail are straight and much shorter than the nuchal 

 appendage. These are balanced on the right by an upturned snout and drooping 

 lower jaw. 



A well-balanced but angular and stylistic representation of the alligator is shown 

 in figure 214. Conventionalism is also somewhat heightened by the breaks in 

 the black outline at the ends of the feet and the jaws. The balance would 



Fig. 214. — Well-balanced but angular and stylistic 

 representation of the alligator. 2 /= 



Fig. 215. — Highly conventionalized two-headed al- 

 ligator. ! /» 



be complete if the tail were replaced by a head. This is what has been done 

 in figure 215, which is genetically related to the foregoing and which presents 

 a highly conventionalized two-headed alligator. The black outlines are still further 

 broken up and dots enough to answer for eyes as well as teeth are placed in 

 each of the wide-open mouths. Another double-headed alligator is seen infigure216. 



Fig. 216. — Double-head alligator, with nuchal crest on the 



head at the left. '/* 

 Fig. 217. — Two-headed alligator showing transposition of 



parts, both nuchal crests being attached to the same neck, 'h 

 Fig. 218.. — Two-headed alligator with nuchal crests absent. *l' 



Fig. 218. 



the neck of the head on the left being supplied with a nuchal crest. Here the 

 dots representing eyes and teeth are placed where space invites, rather than 

 where they belong. 



A good example of the transposition of parts is given in figure 217, both nuchal 

 crests being placed on the same neck in order to avoid interference and to har- 

 monize with the paired jaws at each end of the motive. The outlining black 

 color is entirely wanting. In the next illustration (fig. 218) both nuchal crests 

 are lacking, but the setting of black reappears. The teeth in each mouth are in- 

 dicated in a highly diagrammatic fashion. 



