136 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU. 
As regards ornamentation, however, we find evident progress when we com- 
pare the fragments of this pottery with specimens of the older pottery. In order 
to give a better idea of this development, I have brought together the character- 
istic patterns in black-and-white drawing (figs. 132-140). The ground motif— 
the erect triangle—shows the influence of the older pattern scheme, but the later 
composition is much richer and more varied. The triangles not only show more 
varied combinations in horizontal, oblique, and vertical arrangement, but they 
combine also with other horizontal, oblique, and vertical systems of lines. Fig. 135 
exhibits a developed metope band, with a cruciform interior pattern. Equally 
new and peculiar is the ornamentation on the fragments, figs. 138-140. 

(2) The polychrome painted vessels lie completely outside of the ceramic 
development of cultures I and II and seem to have been imported from a more 
distant culture-center. They consist of marginal pieces of dishes without profiling 
and the fragment of a vessel with a high, steep lip. Some of them are made 
of gray-brown, porous clay with a yellow, finely-smoothed slip and dead black 
and dark-red ornamentation (plate 32, fig. 4; plate 33, fig. 2). Similar to this 
is the fragment shown in plate 33, fig. 3, except that in this instance the ground 
clay is dull. The two remaining fragments (plate 33, figs. 1 and 4) are of greenish- 
white clay. In figure 4 the colors are violet, light-gray, and reddish-yellow, laid 
on very thin. In figure 1 the white is not the result of painting, but is due to a 
deposit of salts, which often appears on the surface of antique vessels. The deco- 
rating colors are black and red on a ground of greenish-yellow clay. 
