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motives constantly recur in the decoration of vases in the "Cholula" style, while they are wanting on the Teotihuacan pottery.
Fig. 44.—Huaxtec pottery vase; Tampico.
(After Seler) However that maybe, Teotitlan is a site of great importance, constituting as it does a meeting-point of the three best schopls of pottery, Cholula, Oaxaca and Totonac. Further consideration of the questions involved in the study of Mexican pottery must be deferred until something has been said about the art and culture of the Maya.
