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potter.'* This applies particularly to the details in the modeled 

 clay figurine heads, also in the sharply incised, somewhat jagged 

 lines representing eyes, mouth, etc. Resemblances are likewise seen 

 in the potsherds with decoration consisting of clay rolls attached to 

 the walls of the vessel and f)atterned with pits or jagged punctations 

 from Trigana, on the Colombian coast. Linne's finds at Titumate, 

 Colombia, resemble the plastic decorative designs from Santo Do- 

 mingo. Potsherds from Trigana, a Cuna Indian site between 

 Acandi and La Gloria, Colombia, resemble those from Santo Do- 

 mingo in the encircling bands of pits. 



The unpainted pottery from Pearl Island off the Pacific coast of 

 Panama has, like Punta Patino on the Pacific coast, decorative 

 embellishments consisting of incised lines, punctations, free, in zones, 

 and in parallel, identical with punctate designs on black and brown 

 wares from Monte Cristi. This method of applying pits or dots 

 is unlike the Tainan incised line with terminal pit closely associated, 

 or but slightly removed. On the Dominican north coast flat loop 

 clay handles are frequently supplanted with rounded coils of clay 

 placed in transverse or horizontal position in irregular curves. 

 This feature, although an elementary one, becomes significant when 

 associated with other similar features. 



While much of the pottery from Santo Domingo comes in globose 

 or hemispherical bowls and vases with flattened or rounded base, 

 vessels with flat or even with projecting annular base are not rare. 

 The well-defined straight walls of the base never exceed one-half 

 inch in dej^th. 



Branch reports annular feet to pottery vessels from St. Kitts, 

 while Hatt makes similar comment regarding St. John (Virgin 

 Islands) ware. The annular foot is quite common to the Colombian 

 and Peruvian central highland areas, and to Mexican, also to the 

 Arkansas-Tennessee area in the middle Mississippi Valley. De Jong 

 reports similar finds from Aruba, and Fewkes from Trinidad. Tri- 

 pod vessels are, however, foreign to the Greater Antilles and prox- 

 imal North and South American areas, except in Florida. 



Lothrop 2^ says that fewer than fifty vessels, complete or restored, 

 are known to him from aboriginal Porto Rico, and that not a dozen 

 of these have been illustrated in published reports. Since the earth- 

 enware of that island belongs to the same regional classification as 

 do Santo Domingan aboriginal wares, Lothrop's classification is 

 given here. 



Porto Ilican pottery may be divided into three principal wares distinguislied 

 by the clay, finish, and, to a lesser extent, by the decorative motives, while 



« Linng, S., Darlen in the Past. Goteborg, 1929. 



23 Lothrop, S. K., Two Specimens from Porto Rico. Indian Notes, Mus. Amer. Indian, 

 Heye Foundation, p. 324, October, 1927. 



