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A STUDY OF CHIRIQUIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



is small, consisting mainly of plain perforated disks made from potsherds (fig. 260). 

 In one specimen (fig. 261), the axis is somewhat prolonged in one direction and 

 about it are two opposed figures, probably human, each indicated by a head and 

 arms in relief. The head and arms only are indicated (fig. 261). This and the 

 preceeding are both in the natural color of the baked clay. 



Specimens belonging to this class are extremely rare. Holmes figures none 

 whatever. The only one in the Yale collection is bell-shaped and made of the 

 same paste as the pottery of the scarified group (fig. 262). The paint is also the 

 same. There is an attempt at a perforation through the part serving as a handle, 



Fig. 260 



Fig. 260. — Spindle-whorl consisting of a plain perforated disk. */• 



Fig. 261. — Spindle-whorl decorated with heads and arms in relief. 2 /= 



Fig. 262. — Bell-shaped stamp; a, side view; b, view of lower end. Scarified ware. 3 /» 



but the two holes do not seem to have become continuous at a central point. 

 The small stamp at the top resembles an eye with branching rays. The large 

 stamp at the mouth of the bell is of the same nature and design ; but instead 

 of a single slit across the eye, there are two forming a cross, outside of which are 

 two concentric rings of rays. 



Fig. 263. 



Fig. 263. — Needle-case. 

 Fig. 264. — Needle-case 

 color ware. V s 



Lost color ware, 

 from Divala. I 



NEEDLE-CASES. 



Under this head is grouped a series of 

 small oblong to oval receptacles, the use 

 of which is more or less problematical. They 

 were called by Holmes needle-cases, but he 

 also suggested that they could have served 

 to contain " any other small article of domestic 

 use or of the toilet." They belong for the 

 most part to the lost color ware. They 

 consist of two parts, body and lid. Both are 

 perforated near their margins of contact, in 

 such a manner as to make the holes of one 

 coincide with those of the other. The two 

 specimens illustrated (figs. 263-264) belong to 

 this lost color group of ware ; the lid or cover 

 is missing from each. 



