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and stern, and is a reddish brown in color. The elevated rim 

 section at either end is terminated with a clay figurine in conven- 

 tional design peering outward. Features of the figurine are indi- 

 cated by means of shallow pits without the introduction of con- 

 necting lines. A border of incised parallel lines beginning at a ter- 

 minal pit is continued as a concentrically recurved series of four 

 parallel lines. The bowl below the shoulder angle is plain. A small 

 flat bottom covers a diameter of but 1.8 inches (4.5 cm.), while the 

 length of the bowl at the shoulder is 5.5 inches (14 cm.). The width 

 is 5.3 inches (13.5 cm.) ; it is 1.8 inches (4.5 cm.) higher at the ends 

 than at its center, where it reaches the height of 3 inches (7.5 cm.). 

 Food bowls 2 and 3 of Plate 47 are heretofore undescribed, although 

 some of the pottery handles excavated by Doctor Fewkes and figured 

 in the Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology are similar to the parallel luted ridges shown in the 2- 

 compartment food vessels as shown on the plate. From the descrip- 

 tions of Doctor Fewkes and from the pottery fragments illustrated 

 in Plate 73 of the Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, much of the ware, especially the plain handles 

 and handle lugs from San Juan, resemble and in many cases are 

 identical with those from the Cueva de Las Golondrinas of Porto 

 Rico. Hundreds of shards, consisting of raised pottery surfaces 

 constituting handle lugs and representing animal heads, with mouth 

 and eyes incorporated, are shaped from body coils, constituting an 

 extension of the body of the bowl itself, and are not luted onto the 

 vessel, as are the characteristically Tainan figurine heads. This is 

 a Carib rather than a Tainan form of decorative design. 



Doctor Fewkes described this type of raised handle, excavated 

 likewise in the Cueva de Las Golondrinas, near Manati, as follows : 



The handles are in general similar and evidently belonged to coarse bowls, 

 vases, and oUas. In similar fonns a raised ring of clay served all the purposes 

 of a handle, but there were often added grooves with adjacent elevations. 

 The handle was sometimes broad and flat, at other times narrow and round. 

 One of the specimens * * * has two solid knobs on the rim ; another is 

 perforated just below similar knobs. The edges of the handles of many 

 vessels are pinched into ridges that may be corrugated, notched, or serrated. 



Hardly any two handles are exactly alike ; * * * These show that there 

 was an abundance of red ware. The surface of this pottery in one or two 

 instances is smoothly polished.^" 



A similar type of pottery embellishment occurs on boat-shaped 

 funerary yellow ware vessels from caves near Kingston, Jamaica. 

 In the Jamaican forms three buttons or knobs are placed in series 

 of three at the raised ends of the oblong vessels. Another design is 



«• Fewkes, J. Walter, The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands, Twenty- 

 fifth Ann. Kept. Bur. Amer. Etlin. (1903-04), pp. 1-220, 1907. 



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