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bottom. (Pis. 52,54.) This type of pottery, like most Arawak 

 pottery from Santo Domingo, is unpainted, although it is burnished 

 and fired to remarkably brilliant vermilion, chocolate, or olive drab 

 colors. The outstanding characteristics of this type of vessel are 

 hourglass shape, thinness of walls, and absence of incised figures and 

 decoration with the exception of two crouching jaguar-like animal 

 figurines in flat relief projecting horizontally from the top of the mar- 

 gin at opposite sides of the bowl. Here again we have no culture 

 stratification indicated except that this form does not appear at the 

 many other sites investigated in Santo Domingo where cruder pottery 

 forms are more abundant. The conclusion is forced upon us, as 

 Fewkes pointed out years ago, that southeastern Santo Domingan 

 forms, along with those from southwestern Porto Rico, are superior 

 and have reached a greater degree of development than have Ara- 

 wakan forms elsewhere on the two islands. 



Another variant less striking than those just described but never- 

 theless characteristic of a local development in southeastern Santo 

 Domingo is a heavy-walled effigy vessel resting on a flat, annular 

 bottom. (PI. 54.) The incised decorative zone on the incurved 

 upper half of the exterior walls is typically Arawakan. The pro- 

 jecting snout of an aviform figurine head is applied to one side of 

 the vessel's rim and the flat clay slab representing the tail may be 

 seen projecting on the opposite side. Horizontally incised lines ter- 

 minated with pits in typically Arawakan fashion fill in the interven- 

 ing spaces at the sides and may be considered as representing wings, 

 the entire vessel then being a representation of some waterfowl or 

 bird. Rudimentary effigy bowls occur elsewhere in the Greater and 

 Lesser Antilles throughout the entire archipelago. Usually such 

 vessels with figurine head at one side and tail placed opposite are 

 oval and may be roughly described as boat shaped, being hollowed 

 out at the center and having a raised prow and stern. Typical ex- 

 amples of this form have been recovered by the writer in Samana 

 and by Theodoor de Booy at Salcedo in eastern Seibo. The shape is 

 characteristic of pottery forms from Jamaica. (PL 41.) Small 

 trencher or boat shaped vessels with a high prow and stern, obtained 

 by the writer at Andres, invariably have a distinct figurine head at 

 either end and could in no case be considered effigy vessels. They 

 rather illustrate the simple introduction of a figurine head at the 

 high terminal ends of the vessel as in Iroquoian ware. 



Another form of earthenware is a heart-shaped water bottle re- 

 covered from Andres. (PI. 10.) Several such water bottles were 

 excavated almost identical in form but varying in size. A short, 

 rather bulbous neck, superimposed on a heart-shaped body with flat 

 bottom and with no decoration except an incised panel at the sides 



