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Bell; made of pottery; lightly fired; woman wearing conical skirt; two braids of pottery down back; arms raised, hands on temples; dress painted with red flowers, and red semicircles along bottom hem; hole pierced in back of skirt, with string around waist threaded through hole suspending circle of pottery for clapper.

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