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called bloated appearance of zoomorphic figurine heads characteris- 

 tic of the Lesser Antilles occur infrequently in Santo Domingo. 

 Mortuary pottery from the Virgin Islands as discussed by Theodoor 

 cle Booy is for the most part of shallow plain ware, while mortuary 

 pottery from Santo Domingo as typified in the numerous finds from 

 Andres is quite varied and richly ornamented, many of the pots and 

 vases, however, showing little evidence of former use, but not form- 

 ing a variety of mortuarj^ pottery distinct from the domestic ware. 

 The plain mortuary ware of the Virgin Islands is undoubtedly 

 Caribbean. 



Incised line design terminated with one or several punctations or 

 shallow pits is undoubtedly limited to the Bahamas and the Greater 

 Antilles, exclusive of Jamaica, but does not occur in the Lesser 

 Antilles, and but infrequently in the States bordering the Gulf 

 coast. 



Both the Lesser and the Greater Antilles apparently repeat in 

 stone many of the details of decorative design appearing on earthen- 

 ware vessels. This applies to the secondary modeled or relief fea- 

 tures, and to the incised designs as broken lines, whether recti- 

 linear or curvilinear, transverse lines at right angles, forming 

 T-shaped figures, parallel lines, punctations in series. All of these 

 incised figures are characteristic of Santo Domingan wares. It 

 might be noted in passing that many of the figurine heads appearing 

 as decorative embellishments on pottery from the Lesser Antilles 

 appear to have angular outlines, are more massive in design 

 (bloated), and appear foreign to the more conventionalized heads 

 from Santo Domingo. In the West Indies the heart-shaped water 

 bottle, also the effigy water jar, apparently is limited to the Porto 

 Kican and Santo Domingan area. This is true also of the large 

 effigy jars which resemble very much certain forms of water jars 

 from Arkansas. Intrusive Caribbean designs from the Lesser 

 Antilles characterized by two or multiple compartment bowls in red 

 ware, and the use of paint rather than of incised decorative paneling, 

 is limited in the Greater Antilles to southwestern Porto Kico and 

 northern and eastern Santo Domingo. Incised lines filled with 

 kaolin or other white mineral pigment and polychrome painted ware 

 comes mainly from the island of St. Kitts. Here also we find red 

 and white painted vessels, but kaolin-slipped gray ware as well as 

 water bottles with decorative designs in secondary modeling in 

 intaglio apparently are restricted in their distribution to the Santo 

 Domingan north coast in the Province of Monte Cristi. Large effigy 

 figurines of the human body are rare in Santo Domingo, although 

 a few are known. These are usually excellent examples of modeling 

 in free-hand and represent individual figures seated or crouching 

 with flexed legs in realistic pattern. Kepresentation of certain of 



