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233 N o t e s o f M i d d l e A m e r i c a n A r c h a e o l o g y a n d E t h n o l o g y Carnegie Institution of Washington Division of Historical Research No. 60 November 27, 1945 Archaeological material from the Club Internacional, El Salvador Stanley H. Boggs in thickness, which rested on (3) hard, white volcanic ash of unknown depth. The specimens hereinafter described, now on exhibition at the Club (except for one shown in Figs. 60.2g, 60.3k, owned by Sr. Duran), were found at the base of, but clearly within, the uppermost stratum. SPECImEnS MONOCHROMES Coarse gray clay, unpainted and unslipped Figs. 60.1 a, 60.3e. Jug or jar with two vertical loop handles, ovate body and rounded base. Surface rough and light gray. Black firing clouds. Fig. 60.3p. Half of a small bowl with thickened rim and flattened base. Surface: interior polished with clear striations (of stone polishing?); exterior smoothed but unpolished. Very dark gray. DICHROMES a. Red-on-gray cantaros or jars Figs. 60.1b; 60.3b. Compressed-globular body with rounded base. Flaring neck connected to upper curve of body by two vertical loop handles. Lip thinned and sharp. Surface unslipped, light gray, and well smoothed. Red painted design is confined to the upper half of body curve, between handles, and to one side of the neck. Broad-outlined areas between the. handles with fineline filling-elements are characteristic of design. On neck of vessel appears a schematic (anthropomorphic?) face, formed by appliqued bits of clay. In 1939, during construction of the present building of the Club Internacional in the center of the city of San Salvador, workmen excavating the basement discovered a deposit of prehistoric objects associated with a stratum of volcanic ash. This material, according to Sr. Don Jose Maria Duran, architect and building contractor in charge of the work, was found mixed together in a very small area. No burials or structures of pre-Columbian age have been reported within at least 1 km of the finds. Many visitors to San Salvador have viewed some of the specimens discussed in the present Note, and several of the polychrome bowls have been commented upon by Longyear and others. The following account is the first, I believe, to attempt a fairly detailed annotation of all the finds together with their place of discovery. The importance of the Club collection arises from the facts that one specific stratum of volcanic ash contained all the specimens, and that a number of easily recognizable, possibly datable, pottery wares were represented. STrATIGrAPHy Sr. Duran has informed me that the layers of soil penetrated by his workmen at the point of discovery of the archaeological objects, a spot approximately 20 m north of the 2a Calle Oriente and 35 m east of the 2a Avenida Sur, were as follows: (1) 2.5 m of volcanic ash with much loose (recent?) humus mixed especially into the upper portion, overlying (2) alternating thin layers of sand and gravel totaling 0.75 m Stanley H. BoggS 234 Figs. 60.1c; 60.3a. In nearly all respects, this is simply a larger version of the foregoing specimen. The loop handles, however, are confined entirely to the upper curve of the body, the painted lines are not sharply defined (smoothed before paint was dry?), and apparently no filling design was painted in the trapezoidally outlined area between the handles. The stylized face on the neck of the jar is painted red, its ear elements are pierced and the eyes are separated from the muzzle. The polished surface is considerably darker than that of the vessel last described. Fig. 60.3g. Neck only of a jar almost certainly of the same style as the above. The polished surface bears three red squares painted on dark, unslipped gray clay. b. Ring-and-dot jars. Figs. 60.1e; 60.3l. Globular body with marked shoulder, rounded base, flaring rim with characteristic profile. Smooth surface. Lower half of body covered with smeared, whitish wash. Upper half, including neck and rim, painted with thick, dark red, typically crackled in firing. On the red areas are painted rows of, and groups of, three white circles. This white circle motif is repeated on the flat portion of the rim. Paste is rather coarse, reddish brown, friable. Figs. 60.1f; 60.3c. Globular body with vertically flattened...

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