TYPE EXAMPLES IN" THE NATIONAL, COLLECTION 67 



from graves near Kingston, Jamaica. (Pis. 41, 42.) In the Jamai- 

 can forms three buttons or knobs are placed in series at the raised 

 ends of the oblong vessel. In the similar example from Andres 

 the series of raised knobs at the end of the vessel includes but two, 

 which, as mentioned before, are separated by a corresponding inden- 

 tation which forms a knob projecting inward rather than outward. 



Another design from Jamaica is a crescent-shaped ribbon of 

 clay surrounding a central knob. This form of Jamaican earthen- 

 ware has exceedingly thin walls and like the Andres example has 

 no characteristic archaic figurine heads. It would be rather inter- 

 esting to speculate as to chronological sequences when we have this 

 outstanding difference in decorative design: First, archaic figurine 

 heads of unmistakable antiquity; second, a simple design of knobs 

 and buttons alternating with depressions appearing on character- 

 istically thin-walled vessels usually of red ware but widely dis- 

 tributed and known from sites in Jamaica, Andres, and Samana 

 in the Dominican Kepublic, and from Manati in Porto Rico. Doctor 

 Fewkes was the first to describe this type of pottery, which he dis- 

 covered in the Cueva de las Golondrinas near Manati in Porto Eico 

 and which he describes as a red ware having " two solid knobs on 

 the rim. * * * " The writer uncovered many objects of a similar 

 red ware at San Juan on the northern coast of the Dominican Re- 

 public in Samana Province, each having vertically applied ribbons 

 of clay or projecting knobs and buttons similar to the Andres, 

 Kangston, and Manati red ware. 



For the present this knobbed or otherwise undecorated pottery 

 must be considered as distinct from the usual Tainan decorated 

 ware, as to form, color, and decorative embellishment. Some of the 

 knobbed pottery forms from Andres are unusual or depart from the 

 usual type of knobbed red ware in that the walls are extremely 

 heavy and generally present a cruder appearance. 



Perhaps the crudest and earliest type of all is the extremely ir- 

 regular, flat-bottomed, globular vessel with pronounced upright mar- 

 gin somewhat constricted, but with a well-marked shoulder surround- 

 ing the vessel. (PI. 46.) Typical decorative designs on such vessels 

 include a paneled decoration on the incurved outer wall above the 

 shoulder and series of concentric, crescent-shaped lines, perhaps a 

 marginal incised band and a crudely molded lug or handle, stuck on 

 at opposite sides of the shoulder and representing some animal form 

 Imown to the Tainan artist or pottery maker. The concentric cres- 

 cent-shaped etched panels are occasionally replaced with a cross 

 hachure or with V-shaped lines meeting one another at various 

 angles, the latter forming a decorative panel crudely encircling the 

 upper half of the outer walls of the vessel. Always, however, we 



