Pottery. 29 



coarser make and not so well Ijurned as the first. In shape it 

 resembles an Egyptian l)owl of red polished ware figured by 

 Samuel Birch. "^ 

 It is about iUiu. wide at the mouth. 



The kitchenmiddens at the mouth of the Rufanes River have 

 yielded a number of other specimens of pottery to the Museum 

 collection. These include a nearly complete cup'-^ (C 107 of the 

 Museum register) found l)y Mr. F. Pyni. It is nearly hemis- 

 pherical and only 3jin. wide, and llin. deep. It is without orna- 

 mentation and quite bl ick. Another (C 110), also found by Mr. 

 Pym, indicates a large pot of somewhat conical shape, with wide 

 mouth and flattened bottom It is without ornamentation, Init 

 l)its showing the parallel lines on the neck as in fig. 1, 5a, and iJa, 

 are also frequent, and lastly we find occasionally l)its. which are 

 ornamented by impressions of lines of dots or ])road short lines 

 (fig. 5, d-g). Som? are burned quite red, atid theiefore evidently 

 made of pure clay. Numerous other fragments from kitchenmiddens 

 situated on the coast from the Peddie district to Port Elizaljeth are 

 in the Musttem collecti^nis, but none of them show any interesting 

 features beyond those to which reference has already l>een made 

 except that some have neat holes bored through them which were 

 for a long tim? a g.-ea': pu/./.le until the portion of the pot repre- 

 sented on fig. 3 gave a clue to them. 



This fragment (C 192 of the Museum register) which gives a fair 

 idi'a of the form which the pot had when complete, was found, 

 l)r()ken into small pieces, in acave at King's Quarry, close to Grahams- 

 town. That this cave was occupied l)y Bushmen is shown I)y the 

 fact that on the walls there were, until recently, a numbei- of 

 characteristic Bushman paintings. Whether the pot was made by 

 the Bushmen themselves, or obtained from neighbouring Hottentot 

 tribes is impossible to say. I have, however, not been able to find 

 any traces of pottei-y in or about some undoubted Bushman caves 

 along the Botha's rive:-, al)out "> miles north-east of Grahamstown, 

 nor were there any stone implements, which were numerous in 

 the King's Quarry cave. A large fragment of a very wide-mouthed 

 pot with one "ear," init without ornamentation, was found l)y Mr. 

 C Butt in a cave near the Hiishmms Hiver-mouth (0 222 of the 



' SiiiiiLiel Birch. '• Hist.-ry of Aucifiit Potteiy," New -.uid rovi^tvl edition, 



Lutidoii 1H7:5 (No. 21.) 

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joined togL-tlier. 



