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When the pot was burned the design came out in the 

 natural color of the clay against a black, or sometimes a 

 red field. The design was often made two layers deep 

 by applying simple masses of red over the sizing before 

 the impermanent paint of the design proper was put on. 



mm 



Fig. 58. The Turtle Motive as developed in Negative Painting with 

 Wax at Totoate, Jalisco. 



In the northwestern region of central Mexico now under 

 consideration the negative painting technique is asso- 

 ciated with conventionalized designs representing tur- 

 tles (Fig. 58). Another ware with designs in white is 

 concerned with derivatives of the turtle motive. Then 



