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Museum register) which had also, most likely, been inhabited In 

 Bushmen. The pot to which the poi-tion represented on lig. i5 be- 

 longed, was rather coarsely made, and notparticulai'ly well burned. 

 It is cibout ll^in. wide at the mouth. In addition to the holes 

 through the " ears." it exhibits 5 neatly bored holes, 4 of which are 

 clearly shown in the figure. These are in paiis and their position 

 indicates that they were used to bind together the pot when it was 

 threatening to fall to pieces by showing cracks. Anybody who has 

 seen what pains our natives even now sometimes take to l)ind to- 

 gether ci-acked calabashes, and how cleverly they do it, will admit 

 that this simple explanation of the occurrence of these holes in 

 bits of native pottery is not far-fetched. 



We now come to the small pot represented on fig. 4 ((' 228 of 

 the Museum register). It is ojin. wide at the mouth, and of about 

 the same height. It is made of very inferior material ai.d ^ery 

 badly burned. The walls are rather thick and very unevenly 

 finished. It shows sig^s of having been used over a fire. It has 

 three knobs (there are none on the side not shown on the 

 figure) which represent a reminiscence of " ears." It was found 

 by Mr. T. Cronw^right about .')()0 oi' 100 yards from the Kleine- 

 monde river (which is east of Port Alfred) and about a mile and a 

 half from the sea in a very dense thicket. It was more than half 

 buried in the ground. As in material and finish it is much in- 

 ferior to the pottery hitherto considered, I am inclined to look 

 upon it as made by Bushmen, though this view is incapable of 

 proof. I find, to a certain extent, confirmation of this view in the 

 samples of Bushmen pottery fi-om the Stormberg, presented by 

 Dr. R. Kannemeyer, F.J..S. (("- r)0-<S7 of the Museum register). In all 

 these pieces the selection of material has not been so cai-efully 

 m.ade as in the pottery ascribed to Hottentots. They are also 

 thicker and more clumsy than the lattei-, and throughout they ai-e 

 not particularly well burned. Some aie jilain like the jot jejjre- 

 sented by figure 4 ; others are, however, much more carefully and 

 artistically ornamented than the pottery from the coast, as we might 

 expect from a race so much more artistically inclined than the 

 Hottentots. On figures 8 and *.) a number of these ornamented 

 l)its are reproduced. All the dots and lines on them are evident- 

 1}' separately made by hand. There aie, however, two largei- pieces 

 in the collecti(^n (C 48 and 40 of the Mnseum registei-) which 

 suggest a different method in the production of the ori.ament- 

 ation. It seems that at all events sometimes (as ]:ointed out by 

 Dr. Kannemeyer in a M.S. note attached to the si)ecime'ns) 



