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Pottery types and their sequence in El Salvador (1927)

Lothrope, Samuel Kirkland, 1892-, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · New York, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 51

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207 IN EL SALVADOR faces like fig. 21, b, or lopsided vessels like the whistling jar published by Saville (1916). The material at present available to the writer does not justify a detailed chronological sequence, but further finds will probably make it possible. This should prove a boon to the… … A curious aspect of plumbate ware is the persistent influence of Chorotegan art. Thus we find the typical Chorotegan pear-shape vessel with a projecting animal head, as in fig. 21, a. Legs (fig. 22, b) are often hollow and pointed, as is the Chorotegan practice; but they are not hollow and…

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