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the Caribs or by their captured Tainan wives. The combination of red-ware 

 decoration and brown-ware clay (effigy bird bowl) is best explained by this 

 hypothesis. 



It should be added that effigy " brown ware " (terra cotta or biscuit 

 ware) bowls occur also in eastern Santo Domingo. 



Sainana fottery types. — Earthenware forms and decorative de- 

 signs on pottery from eastern Santo Domingo have been described by 

 Dr. J. W. Fewkes,2« gjj. Robert Schomburgk, Theodoor de Booy, Sven 

 Loven/' Joyce, Hatt, Kivart, Krieger,"^ and others. The first inten- 

 sive study of pottery forms from eastern Santo Domingo was that by 

 Theodoor de Booy,-^ who explored cave middens and excavated cul- 

 tural deposits within the boundaries of the aboriginal Province of 

 Higuey, in southeastern Santo Domingo. 



Pottery objects from three distinct local areas in Samana were 

 collected by the United States National Museum expedition and 

 forwarded in part to the United States National Museum and in 

 part to the National Museum of the Dominican Kepublic at Santo 

 Domingo City. The sites explored are the caves on the south shore 

 of Samana Bay; the village site at Anadel, on the southern slope of 

 Samana Peninsula; and the large village site at San Juan, on the 

 northern coast of the peninsula, each of which yielded potsherds of 

 somewhat different description. The San Juan site yielded the 

 greater variety of pottery fragments and complete vessels in form, 

 paste, technic, and decorative design. 



Pottery from the Samana caves. — Forms represented in the cave 

 finds are largely conjectural, as only a few shards of sufficient size 

 were recovered to clearly establish the type. Then, too, most of 

 the ware recovered from the caves is undecorated. The more com- 

 mon relief embellishment on the few decorated shards is a sharply 

 defined thickened rim section, formed either by luting on of an addi- 

 tional reinforcing ribbon of clay around the outer margin of the 

 rim, or through the use of a thicker rim coil. 



Shards of globular shallow bowls were recovered at Cueva del 

 Templo ("Kailroad" cave), while fragments of incised line and 

 of punctate decorative patterns were picked up at the site of the 

 rock-ledge burials on Upper Orange Key and in the kitchen middens 

 in " Simmons " cave. Ordinarily the cave pottery from Samana is 

 plain, well-fired terra-cotta ware, for the most part unpainted, but 



"The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands, Twenty-fifth Ann. Kept. Bur. 

 Anier. Ethn. (1903-04), pp. 1-220, 1907. A Prehistoric Island Culture Area of America, 

 Thirty-fourth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn. (1912-13), pp. 35-281, 1922. 



=" Ueber die Wurzeln cler Tainishcn Kultur, Goeteborg, 1924. 



=" Archeological and Historical Investigations in Samanfi, Dominican R-epublic, Bull. 

 147, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1929. 



2' Pottery from Certnin Caves in Eastern Santo Domingo, West Indies, Contr. Heye 

 Mus., no. 9, 1915. Also, Santo Domingo Kitchen Midden and Burial Mound. Indian 

 Notes and Monogr., Mus. Amer. Indian, Heye Foundation, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 103-137, 1919, 



