Fig. 179. Vase decorated with highly conventional life forms—½.
Fig. 179a. Design from vase shown in Fig. 179.
In Figs. 179 and 180 I present very interesting examples in which the arched panels are used. In the first the compartments are occupied by a favorite Chiriquian motive, which consists of groups of lines curled up at one end like unfolding fronds. The whole group represents a very highly conventionalized animal figure (Fig. 179a). The devices occupying the upright panels take the place of the animal heads shown in several preceding figures. In the arched panels shown in Fig. 180 we have the frond-like motive treated in a manner
to make it pretty certain that a reptilian form is intended. These figures are fully and systematically presented in a succeeding section.
Fig. 180. Vase decorated with highly conventional life forms—½.