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of the inner sectional diameter of the walls of the vessel remains 

 unfired. The paste is there revealed as a black, porous earth, 

 heavily impregnated with particles of steatite and potsherds, con- 

 stituting a tempering material. The earth from which the vessel 

 was built up is apparently that of the Samana peninsula and is not 

 from the vicinity of the caves on the south shore of the bay. 



San Juan potterif types. — Three small bowls characteristic of the 

 pottery from the San Juan site are illustrated in Plate 14. The 

 boat-shape vessel, 1, resembles boat-shape earthenware types from 

 Jamaica and Porto Rico, but is more nearly identical with a food 

 bowl recovered by De Booy from the caves at Salada, in south- 

 eastern Santo Domingo. This bowl. Cat. No. 341019, U.S.N.M., is 

 reddish brown in color. Broken sections of the walls reveal an 

 unfired area of black earth at the center of the walls similar to 

 that of Cat. No. 341055, U.S.N.M., figured in Plate 14. The bowl 

 is oblong, like a boat, with a high prow and stern. The elevated 

 rim section at either end is terminated with a clay figurine in con- 

 ventional design peering outward. Features of the figurine are indi- 

 cated by means of shallow pits without the introduction of connect- 

 ing lines. A border of incised parallel lines beginning at a terminal 

 pit is continued as a concentrically recurved series of four parallel 

 lines. The bowl below the shoulder angle is plain. A small flat 

 bottom covers a diameter of but 4,5 centimeters (1.8 inches), while 

 the length of the bowl at the shoulder is 14 centimeters (5.5 inches). 

 The width is 13.5 centimeters (5.3 inches) ; it is 4.5 centimeters (1.8 

 inches) liigher at the ends than at its center, where it reaches the 

 height of 7.5 centimeters (3 inches). Food bowls 2 and 3 of Plate 14 

 are, so farl as the writer is aware, new and heretofore undescribed, 

 although some of the pottery handles excavated by Doctor Fewkes 

 and figured in the Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology are similar to the parallel luted ridges shown 

 in the two compartment food vessels. (No. 2, Plate 14.) From 

 the descriptions of Doctor Fewkes and from the pottery fragments 

 illustrated in Plate 73 of the Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, much of the ware, especially the 

 plain handles and handle lugs from San Juan (pis. 25 and 26), 

 resemble and in many cases are identical with those from the Cueva 

 de las Golondrinas of Porto Rico. Hundreds of shards, consisting 

 of raised pottery surfaces constituting handle lugs or animal heads, 

 with mouth and eyes incorporated, are shaped from the same coil, 

 constituting an extension of the body of the bowl itself, and are not 

 luted onto the vessel, as are the characteristically Tainoan figurines 

 heads. This is a Carib rather than a Tainoan form of deco- 

 rative design, but is here described from a typical Tainoan site, 



