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other soluble or combustible paint, then to cover the 
entire surface with a permanent paint. When the pot 
was burned the design came out in the natural color 
of the clay against a black, or sometimes a red field. 
inal 
Fig. 57. The Turtle Motive as developed in Negative Painting 
with Wax at Totoate, Jalisco. 
The design was often made two layers deep by applying 
simple masses of red over the sizing before the imper- 
manent paint of the design proper was put on. In 
the northwestern region of central Mexico now under 
consideration the negative painting technique is asso- 
ciated with conventionalized designs representing tur- 
