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Rh the design often includes a row of glyphs. Vases of this type have been discovered also at Copan and in the Uloa valley. From Vera Paz also come plaques with excellent designs, including figures holding the "ceremonial bar," together with the moulds in which they were made. These are in hard terra-cotta coloured clay, and are not furnished with a slip. Many details to serve

as applied ornament to vases and censers were also made in moulds (e.g. the sun-face which forms the coverdesign), while a great proportion of the figurines and whistles throughout the Maya region were similarly constructed.

Relief ornament moulded by hand is common throughout the Maya area, and in the Vera Paz region vases are frequently found in the shape of birds and beasts, sometimes with a human face enclosed in the jaws (similar to Pl. XVIII, 5). The combination of