. Bulletin. Ethnology. 244 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 170. Figure 78.—Figurine head, Torres site. \ vessels. Several are attached to body sherds so that the method of attachment to the vessel wall may be seen. Most are quite thin in cross section, with square or slightly rounded edges. Nearly all are made of the same fine paste as was used in the polychrome pottery at this site. One piece (fig. 77, ~b) is attached to a body sherd which shows traces of an elaborate curvilinear design in red, black, white and orange on the interior surface. One specimen (fig. 77, d) is made of a coarser
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 244 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 170. Figure 78.—Figurine head, Torres site. \ vessels. Several are attached to body sherds so that the method of attachment to the vessel wall may be seen. Most are quite thin in cross section, with square or slightly rounded edges. Nearly all are made of the same fine paste as was used in the polychrome pottery at this site. One piece (fig. 77, ~b) is attached to a body sherd which shows traces of an elaborate curvilinear design in red, black, white and orange on the interior surface. One specimen (fig. 77, d) is made of a coarser paste containing a moderate amount of angular and sub- rounded quartz grains fine to medium in size. One side and the squared edges of this piece are painted with a thin coat of cream color over which is painted a double meandering line decoration in red. No loop handles were seen at this site. Strap handles are known in small quantities from the La Venta Phase Olmec habitation areas at La Venta (LV, p. 122). They were not found in the Lower to Upper sequence at Tres Zapotes, occurring at this site only in the very late intrusive burial offerings (Drucker, 1943 a, p. 106). At Cerro de las Mesas strap handles occurred in the Lower II and Upper I horizons (Drucker, 1943 b, p. 76). However they are accompanied in these levels by numerous ceramic features which appeared to be entirely lacking at the Torres site. One specimen may be a fragmentary and poorly made solid slab vessel support (fig. 77, /). This is made of a rather loosely com- pacted light-buff paste with moderate amounts of angular and sub- rounded quartz grains, fine to medium in size. The piece is un- slipped and has poorly smoothed surfaces. One side is painted in three horizontal bands of red. No other types of vessel supports were recovered from the Torres site. The figurine fragments from this site (fig. 78; pi. 61, a-f) are all from solid handmade figurines. They appear to conform very well to Drucker's figuri
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