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designs appearing on the inner surface of the fragment ; others have 

 the design on the outer surface. No. 4 of Plate 25 is unique in that 

 the pits are excavated from a ridge or shoulder appearing on the 

 surface of the shard near the bottom of the vessel. This archaic 

 type appears on forms of South American pottery, especially from 

 Venezuela and Colombia. 



Crosshatching and stone collar decorative designs. — A form of 

 decorated ware from the West Indies hitherto undescribed occurs 

 in two shards from a shallow food bowl illustrated in Plate 25, 

 Nos. 6 and 7, U.S.N.M. No. 341039. The decorative design on the 

 incurving surface above the shoulder of the bowl appears to have 

 been made with crosshatching from a rather broad spatula for the 

 vertical and a narrower spatula for the lighter or horizontal designs. 

 Portions of an earthenware griddle (pi. 53) appear to have been 

 molded on a basketry base. If this is so the embellishment consti- 

 tutes an unusual type. 



An interesting coincidence in design appears in the stone collar 

 representations illustrated in Plate 27 as 1 and 2. Doctor Fewkes, 

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

 Ethnology, at considerable length demonstrates how designs sculp- 

 tured on stone collars are similar to pottery figurines appearing as 

 " grotesque " anthropomorphic or zoomorphic designs on handle 

 lugs. A new element in the expression of aboriginal Ciguayan 

 (Samana) art designs appears where the decorative design in pot- 

 tery fragments incorporates the outline figure of a stone collar. No. 

 1 shows a simple outline of a stone collar without decorative em- 

 bellishments ; 2 introduces the peculiar knotted section as it appears 

 on stone collars. Mason describes this part of the collar as the 

 shoulder ridge. The double-shoulder ridge, as it is represented on 

 the pottery fragment 2, recalls the older form and might serve to 

 illustrate the knotted withe where the two ends of the hypothetical 

 wooden collar were joined. Thus tlie same design which first pro- 

 duced a knotted ridge where the two ends of the wooden collar 

 were joined later reproduced the same relief pattern in collars of 

 stone, and finally the entire figure of the collar reappears as a 

 decorative embellishment on an earthenware handle lug. (U.S.N.M. 

 No. 341026.) 



Rattles. — Characteristic of Tainan potter's art is the occasional 

 shaping of a hollow cylindrical lug and the placing within it of a 

 small pebble. Cylindrical rattle lugs are not common or of fre- 

 quent occurrence in the Samana area, although two were recovered at 

 the San Juan site. One of these (U.S.N.M. No. 341038) is a simple 

 globular-shape lug luted onto the side of a pottery vessel. A nar- 

 row clay band pilastering marks the place where the hollow cylinder 

 lug had been closed after insertion of the pebble. Another hollow 



