. Bulletin. Ethnology. Drucker] LA VENTA, TABASCO 89 segments of arc in which the instrument seems to have been pressed inward, then downward toward the arc's center. Modeled design is extremely rare in the sample at hand. However, two boldly modeled jaguar heads are of Coarse Buff ware (figs. 29, 30, and pi. 18). Occurrence.—Coarse Buff ware, has not, so far as I know, been re- ported from any other site. However, a few sherds of it occurred in \-S^. Figure 29.—Coarse BuflF ware effigy bowl from Complex A. Middle Tres Zapotes deposits, although I did not recognize them as of a distinct type w


. Bulletin. Ethnology. Drucker] LA VENTA, TABASCO 89 segments of arc in which the instrument seems to have been pressed inward, then downward toward the arc's center. Modeled design is extremely rare in the sample at hand. However, two boldly modeled jaguar heads are of Coarse Buff ware (figs. 29, 30, and pi. 18). Occurrence.—Coarse Buff ware, has not, so far as I know, been re- ported from any other site. However, a few sherds of it occurred in \-S^. Figure 29.—Coarse BuflF ware effigy bowl from Complex A. Middle Tres Zapotes deposits, although I did not recognize them as of a distinct type while working up that material, but thought them off-color fragments, badly eroded at that, of "Unslipped Ollas" (jars, actually), and remarked (1947, p. 5) that Coarse Buff had been found as yet only at La Venta. I noted them recently wliile making up a type sample of Tres Zapotes sherds from the part of the collections preserved in the United States National Museum, however, and wish to emphasize this correction of my previous Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.


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