inverted

A flanged bowl with a rounded base, flared sides, a direct rim, and rounded lip. The thickness of the walls is 0.5 cm. The paste has a fine texture and finely crushed calcite shows through the surface. The color of the paste is yellowish red (5YR 5/6). These surfaces are smoothed and covered with a yellowish red (5YR 7/8) slip color. The base of the vessel is unslipped and bears evidence of smoothing marks. The decoration on the exterior consists of red (2.5YR 5/8) or yellowish red (5YR 7/8) bands near the rim. Below these are red (10R 4/3) bands of 1.5 cm width. Vertical lines run from these horizontal bands down to the flange in a weak red (10R 4/3) color. On the flange, red (7.5R 4/8) dots were painted and encircled by "U"-shaped red (10R 4/3) motifs. On the interior, there is a red (7.5R 4/8) band near the rim that measures 1.5 cm in width. A second band in a weak red (10R 4/3) color runs beneath the first and is 0.5 cm in width. Fugitive interior paint seems to depict a seated figure wearing some sort of bird mask or headdress. Rays swirling around the interior could represent a large shell motif, from which the figure is emerging.

This bowl has flared sides, a direct rim, and rounded lip. Paste and color are within the characteristic attributes of Society Hall variety. The diameter of the flat base measures 10.8 cm.

Bowl with rounded and incurved sides, a ring base with a drill hole, and a direct, rounded rim. The bowl is slipped on the interior. There is a dark red circumferential line and seven eroded circles painted around the rim. Lines are painted below the rim in 0.4 cm widths and 1-cm separation. The paste is brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and has large rounded inclusions. The vessel was inverted over the cranium of a young adult burial.

Eroded and very fragmentary, this Sierra Red bowl flares from a flat base of 24-cm diameter. The paste and color are characteristic of Sierra Red. The vessel was found inverted over the head and torso of a seated, old adult female.

A very eroded and friable bowl with a rounded base, small flange, outflaring rim, and direct rounded lip. The thickness of the base is 0.68 cm. The slip is a light red (2.5YR 6/8) that coats a paste with small white inclusions and a very dark gray (2.5YR 3/0) core. The bowl was inverted over the head of an extended adult. This vessel was an heirloom Terminal KÕatabcheÕkÕax piece found in an Early NohalkÕax context.

An Actuncan polychrome bowl that remains whole, though cracks have almost fissured through the vessel. The bowl has round sides, a ring base, and a direct rim with a rounded lip. The base has a diameter of 12 cm. Overall, the interior and exterior of the vessel is slipped in a light red (2.5YR 6/8) color, which provides the base coat. Decoration consists of a circumferential band near the rim in a weak red (10R 5/4) color: 0.8-cm wide on the interior, 1.5-cm on the exterior. Motifs appear as angular, serpentine scroll designs in the same color. The bowl was inverted over the skull.

A bowl with a rounded base and a shallow medial flange. The flange has a groove on the inside. The vessel is slipped in red (2.5YR 5/8) on the interior and has some fire clouding. Wall thickness is 0.5-0.7 cm and the rim is slightly folded. The vessel was found inverted over the head of an extended adult.