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Fig- 254. 



the two arms unequal in length meet and fuse. The alligator motives represented 

 by oval notches are distributed precisely as in the Yale example. 



A round-bottomed vase is reproduced in figure 255. The nearly spherical lower 

 half is given a uniform coat of red. The orifice is also painted red. The over- 

 hanging lip and short neck are banded with red and black. The decoration on 

 the flattened upper zone consists of an animal head and tail in relief and painted 

 panels on either side. The panel motive is precisely the same as that on the 

 neck of the pitcher 

 from Gualaca (see fig. 

 254), except that the 

 details are more elab- 

 orate and the execution 

 is of a higher order, 

 three colors also being 

 used instead of one. 

 Here again it takes one 

 and one-half units of 

 the motive to fill the 

 long panel. The ter- 

 minal half- units are 

 bilaterally symmetrical, 

 the end of the scroll 

 in each case being 

 purple outlined in 

 black. The somewhat 

 abbreviated central 

 half-unit terminates in 

 a red coil instead of 

 a purple. This half 

 taken with the one on 

 the right completes a 

 sigmoid scroll. In other 

 words, the growth of 

 the scroll complex is 

 from right to left, as 

 it was of that on the 

 neck of the pitcher. In 

 this instance, the oval 

 notches of figure 254 



become so much more highly differentiated as scarcely to be recognizable. 

 Fortunately the two upper median ones serve as a connecting link between the 

 simpler form as seen on the pitcher and the partially detached form employed at 

 the lower corners, for example. Each one represents the body-line of the alligator, 

 and the accompanying dotted ovals stand for the dermal markings. The panel 

 decoration on the opposite side is almost completely weathered away. Judging 

 from what remains, it was the exact counterpart of the one illustrated. In con- 

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Fig. 254. — Branching scroll in which two of the alligator motives (notches) 

 are partially differentiated (see Plate XLIV, fig. a), 'h 



Fig. 255. — Vase with elaborate branching scroll from which the alligator mo- 

 tives are partially detached and accompanied by dots and circles representing 

 body-markings. Polychrome ware. V 3 



