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sippi, from Louisiana, and from Moundville, Ala. Other similarities 

 of Moundville pottery with that from the Greater Antilles might be 

 pointed out. 



Orifice rims and decorated neck sections of pottery water canteens 

 and water bottles were found at Anadel, San Juan, and in the cave 

 deposits. Many of these were simple tubular coiled blocks with 

 an enlarged or reinforced rim which was rounded on its surface. 

 Similar plain water bottles were discovered in quantity at San 

 Juan, a smaller number at Anadel, and only a few at the " Railroad " 

 cave. The upper portions of the water bottles figured in Plate 15 are 

 from a thick-walled type of water container, shaped from a gray 

 colored granular paste, different from the black loamy clay paste 

 from which most of the vessels and potsherds of Samana had been 

 fashioned. In Plate 15, Nos. 1 and 2 are from San Juan, while 3, 

 Cat. No. 341037, U.S.N.M., is from Anadel. 



The enlarged rim section of 3 resembles that of most of the plain 

 water-bottle rims, while the rip and upper section of 2 is more 

 elaborate. 



The bottles figured in Plate 15 reveal a paint in two colors, a 

 creamy white and a salmon color. In 1 the contrast between the 

 two colors used is marked. A white slip, perhaps of kaolin, had 

 been applied. This has in part disappeared, thus giving the pe- 

 culiarly spotted appearance noted. In 1 an animal figurine head 

 had been luted at the side and stands in high relief at the side of the 

 neck section. The figurine is the characteristic so-called " monkey " 

 type, in which features are represented by transverse lines, the eye 

 by incised circle and dot, while the nose is realistically done and 

 shows a wide nostrility. Other decorative attempts consist of raised 

 ridges traversed by wide incised lines. The outline of the bottle 

 appears to have included two or more globular expanding and con- 

 tracted areas beginning with a globular or bulbous enlargement of 

 the lower neck area. 



In its outline the form of 2 is distinct and more Tainoan. It was 

 recovered from the San Juan site. Concentric curvilinear lines at 

 the top are terminated with shallow pits, as in the food bowl 1, 

 Plate 14, and are filled in with concentric triangularly incised lines. 

 A raised disk-shape surface at the side of the head of the bottle quite 

 near the rim may have served as a rest when the vessel was tilted. 

 It is impossible to explain the raised disk as an element of decorative 

 embellishment. The rim orifice is narrow, 2 centimeters (0.8 inch) 

 in diameter. This is identical with the diameter of the orifice of 3, 

 which was unearthed at Anadel. Tapered walls of the neck area 

 are plain, except for the luted figurine head ap]3arently wearing a 

 headdress and having pierced ear lobes. 



