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in the form a crescent-shaped ribbon of clay surrounding a central 

 knob. This Jamaican earthenware, like that from San Juan, has 

 exceedingly thin walls. No characteristically Tainan figurine heads 

 occur. 



Pottery types from the cave deposits were fewer than from the 

 San Juan site, which yielded an abundance of material from wliich 

 selections were made for the Museum collection. The striking simi- 

 larity of certain types of San Juan pottery to the ware figured by 

 Doctor Fewkes from the Cueva de Las Golondrinas in Porto Kico 

 sets this type of pottery as distinct from the usual Tainan decorated 

 ware, as to form, color, and decorative embellishment. In addition 

 to the Golondrinas type of pottery, there were recovered at San Juan 

 food bowls resembling the Salado ware described by De Booy from 

 near Cape Macao, eastern Santo Domingo. This type of pottery is 

 typically Tainan, but is specifically characterized by curvilinear 

 incised lines terminating in shallow pits. To this type belongs the 

 boat-shaped food bowl. (PI. 47.) 



Zoomorphic and anthopomorphic clay figurine heads, together with 

 fragments of shallow food bowls, were recovered at San Juan in 

 quantity. Examples of these figurine heads are illustrated in Plates 

 14, 23, 24, 27, and 28. 



Characteristic of the Golondrinas type of red ware but also char- 

 acteristic of many similar fragments from San Juan is the double- 

 compartment food bowl (pi. 47, No. 2, U.S.N.M. No. 341021). The 

 bowl is painted red with a dull-brown slip on its inner surface. 

 Unfired areas within the walls are revealed by broken fragments and 

 show the paste as the usual type of black earth impregnated with a 

 profuse tempering of minute fragments of steatite pebbles and of 

 white sand. The bowl is 6.6 inches (16.8 centimeters) long, 2.6 inches 

 (6.6 centimeters) high, and 5.2 inches (13.3 centimeters) wide at the 

 center of each compartment. As to paste and tempering materials, 

 the red ware from San Juan is similar to the usual Tainan earthen- 

 ware from the same area. In form, however, and in the application of 

 a red slip or paint and in the firing the type is foreign to the more 

 common Samana earthenware. The walls of this red ware are much 

 thinner, the firing has progressed to a more thorough stage, and the in- 

 troduction of a central diaphragm separating the vessel into two oval 

 compartments, together with the luting on of vertical bands of clay 

 bilaterally near the rim of either compartment — all these character- 

 istics are foreign to the usual type. The walls of the vessel are 

 thicker at the center near the sectional diaphragm dividing the vessel 

 into two compartments. The vertically applied ribbons of clay which 

 appear near the upper surface of the bowl in pairs are possibly deco- 

 rative lugs. The lugs may appear as modelings of animal heads in 



