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while Doctor Fewkes describes the type of raised handle excavated 

 in the Cueva de las Golondrinas, near Manati, as follows : 



The handles are in general similar, and evidently belonged to coarse bowls, 

 vases, and ollas. In similar forms a raised ring of clay served all the purposes 

 of a handle, but there were often added grooves with adjacent elevations. The 

 handle was sometimes broad and flat, at other times narrow and round. One 

 of the specimens * * * has two solid knobs on the rim ; another is per- 

 forated just below similar knobs. The edges of the handles of many vessels 

 are pinched into ridges that may be corrugated, notched, or serrated. 



Hardly any two handles are exactly alike ; * * * These show that there 

 was an abundance of red ware. The surface of this pottery in one or two 

 instances is smoothly polished.^* 



Pottery types from the cave deposits were fewer than from the 

 San Juan site which yielded a considerable variety of forms, decora- 

 tive designs, and an abundance of material from which selections 

 were made for the Museum collection. The striking similarity of 

 certain types of San Juan pottery to the ware figured by Doctor 

 Fewkes from the Cueva de Las Golondrinas in Porto Rico sets this 

 type of pottery ag distinct from the usual Tainoan decorated 

 ware both as to form, color, and decorative embellishment (pi. 25). 

 In addition to the Golondrinas type of pottery there were recovered 

 at San Juan food bowls resembling the Salado ware described by 

 De Booy from near Cape Macao, Santo Domingo. This type of 

 pottery is typically Tainoan, but is specifically characterized by curvi- 

 linear incised lines terminating in characteristic shallow pits. To 

 this type belongs the boat-shaped food bowl (pi. 14, No. 1). 



Quantities of typical archaic clay figurine zoomorphic and anthro- 

 pomorphic heads, together with surviving fragments of shallow food 

 bowls, were recovered at San Juan in quantity. Examples of these 

 figurine heads are illustrated in Platen 16-27. 



Characteristic of the Golondrinas type (pi. 25) of red ware but 

 also characteristic of many similar fragments from San Juan is 

 the double-compartment food bowl, 2, Plate 14, Cat. No. 341021, 

 U.S.N.M. The bowl is painted red ware having a dull-brown slip 

 on its inner surface. Unfired areas within the walls are revealed by 

 broken fragments and show the paste as the usual type of black earth 

 impregnated with a profuse tempering of minute fragments of 

 steatite pebbles and of white sand. The bowl is 16.8 centimeters 

 (6.6 inches) long, 6.6 centimeters (2.6 inches) high, and 13.3 centi- 

 meters (5.2 inches) wide at the center of each compartment. As 



2« Twenty-fifth Ann. Kept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 181. Note. — A similar type of pottery 

 embellishment occurs on boat-shape funerary vessels from caves near Kingston. .Jamaica. 

 In the Jamaican forms three buttons or knobs are placed in series of three at the raised 

 ends of the oblong vessels. Another design is in the form of a crescent-shape ribbon of 

 clay surrounding a central knob. This Jamaican earthenware, like that from San Juan, 

 has exceedingly thin walls. No characteristically Tainoan figurine heads occur. 



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