CONTENTS 



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Introduction 1 



Geography 11 



Native tribes and provinces 16 



Nonagricultural cave dwellers 20 



Historical narratives and arclieological field work 22 



Source material to the ethnology of Santo Domingo 22 



Archeological explorations prior to 1928 24 



Field work in Samana Province, 1928 27 



Field work in Monte Cristi Province, 1929 35 



Field work in La Vega, Azua, and Santo Domingo Provinces, 1930 — 38 



Elements of form and design in Santo Domingan aboriginal pottery 47 



Details of construction and design 61 



Description of tj'pe examples in the national collection 63 



Subareas of aboriginal pottery in Santo Domingo 63 



Samana pottery types 74 



Pottery from the Samana caves 74 



San Juan pottery types 76 



Pottery stamps and miscellaneous objects 79 



Crosshatching and stone-collar decorative designs 83 



Rattles 83 



Clay figurine heads 84 



Modeling of life forms 85 



Water bottles 88 



Vases and censers 93 



Pottery pestles 95 



Bowls 97 



Northern affiliations of Santo Domingan pottery 104 



Characterization of divergent pottery groups in the Antilles 120 



Aboriginal pottery of the Bahamas 120 



Aboriginal pottery of Cuba 121 



Jamaican aboriginal earthenware 122 



Prehistoric earthenware of the Virgin Islands 123 



Prehistoric pottery of the Lesser Antilles 125 



Trinidad and South American earthenware types 126 



Conclusion 138 



Index 141 



Explanation of plates 163 



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