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two shards from a shallow food bowl illustrated in Plate 18 as Nos. 

 6 and 7, Cat. No. 341039, U.S.N.M. The decorative design on the 

 incurving surface above the shoulder of the bowl appears to have 

 been made with crosshatching from a rather broad-headed spatula 

 for the vertical and a narrower spatula for the lighter or horizontal 

 designs. Portions appear to have been molded on a basketry base. 

 If this is so the embellishment constitutes an unusual type. 



An interesting coincidence in design appears in the stone collar 

 representations illustrated in Plate 19 as 1 and 2. Doctor Fewkes 

 in the Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology at considerable length demonstrates how designs sculp- 

 tured on stone collars are similar to pottery figurines appearing as 

 " grotesque " anthropomorphic or zoomorphiq designs on handle 

 lugs. Fewke's analysis of the designs on stone collars has a bearing 

 on the explanation of the ceremonial and religious life when we con- 

 sider how the identical decorative embellishments appear on the sur- 

 faces of earthenware vessels. A new element in the expression of 

 aboriginal Ciguayan art designs appears in the pottery fragments 

 1 and 2 of Plate 19, where the decorative design incorporates the 

 outline figure of a stone collar. No. 1 shows a simple outline of a 

 stone collar without decorative embellishments; 2 introduces the 

 peculiar knotted section as it appears on stone collars. Mason de- 

 scribes this part of the collar as the shoulder ridge. The double- 

 shoulder ridge, as it is represented on the pottery fragment 2, recalls 

 the older form of wooden collar and might serve to illustrate the 

 knotted withe where the two ends of the wooden collar were joined. 

 Thus the same motive of design which first produced a knotted ridge 

 where the two ends of the wooden collar were joined later reproduced 

 the same relief pattern in the collars of stone, and finally the entire 

 figure of the collar reappears as a decorative embellishment on an 

 earthenware handle lug. (Cat. No. 341026, U.S.N.M.) 



Rattles. — Characteristic of Tainoan potter's art is the occasional 

 shaping of a hollow cylindrical lug and the placing within it of a 

 small pebble. Cylindrical rattle lugs are not common or of frequent 

 occurrence in the Samana area, although two were recovered at the 

 San Juan site. One of these, Cat. No. 341038, U.S.N.M., is a simple 

 globular-shape lug luted onto the side of a pottery vessel. Where the 

 hollow cylinder lug had been closed after insertion of the rattle 

 pebble is a narrow clay band pilastering. Another hollow rattle lug, 

 Cat. No. 341038, U.S.N.M., is shaped in the form of a bird's head. 

 This figure is illustrated as 5 on Plate 18. Bill or beak and eyes are 

 not shown in the illustration. Feathers are represented as raised 

 ridges and by concentric curvilinear parallel grooves. On the cen- 

 trally placed ridge appear a number of shallow punctations in- 

 tended to represent the wattle of some species of wattled bird. 



