66 BULLETIN 15 6, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



are the characteristic features of this vessel. The bulbous neck area 

 of Santo Domingan water bottles generally has been noted else- 

 where ^^ and along with other examples recovered by the writer in 

 Monte Cristi and in Samana form a series unique in West Indian 

 pottery forms. These water bottles invariably have animal figurine 

 heads projecting from the bulbous neck either near the constricted 

 margin or loy\'er down close to the body of the vessel. (Pis. 11, 14, 

 17.) A typical modeled figurine to be applied is that of the frog. 

 Sometimes frog figurines appear individually, in which case 

 the molding is realistic indeed. Sometimes the frog figurine is 

 enlarged, occupying the entire neck region, being pierced at the 

 center to obtain a lip or oral margin. (Pis. 7, 11.) The best 

 example of this type is now in the Dominican National Museum. 



Variants in decorative design, in form, and in paste are clearly 

 the work of the individual aboriginal potter, when the specimen does 

 not represent a tribal borrowing, or a chronological sequence within 

 the subarea where it appears. 



Two characteristic types illustrating the wide range of Santo 

 Domingan pottery forms are, first, the 2-compartment bowl with one 

 compartment superimposed over the other, but separated from the 

 other by a strongly marked constriction at the center (pi. 52) ; second, 

 a rectangular oral sector on a globular vessel with a series of rim 

 depressions at the center and end (pi. 52). Each of these types, 

 the first with its equatorial constriction, the second with its wavy 

 margin and rectangular rim form, might well be taken from some 

 collection of Iroquois or other northeastern Indian pottery. The 

 bottom of the globular vessels may either be small but flat, or some- 

 what rounded like the Algonquian conical type. The 2-compart- 

 ment vessel with equatorial constriction is distinct from the gourd- 

 like constricted vessels from Peru and from the Pueblo area in that 

 in Santo Domingo (Andres) the upper compartment is usually 

 larger than the lower, while in the gourdlike type the upper compart- 

 ment is much smaller, resembling the gourd in a very realistic manner. 

 Each of these vessels described has the combined decorative elements 

 of incised lines terminated with a punctation, alternating with 

 applied animal and human figurine heads projecting from the walls 

 of the vessel just below the margin. 



Another form with oblong, rectangular outline, while dispensing 

 with incised lines and figurine head embellishments, introduces in- 

 stead a series of wens alternating with deep pits at either end of 

 the vessel, resembling Jamaican forms. A similar type of pottery 

 embellishment occurs on boat-shaped funerary vessels recovered 



" Kriegei-, H. W., (a) Archeological and Historical InvesUgations iu Samana, Dominican 

 Republic, Bull. 147, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; (b) The Aborigines of the Ancient Island of 

 Hispaniola, Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst, for 1929, pp. 473-506, 1930. 



