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leg of a horse appears halfway between foot and knee, perhaps 

 representing the ankle. The fragment is covered with a reddish 

 slip. (PI. 36.) Kepresentations in modeled clay of the human arm 

 and hand are far more common. They are always molded in a 

 conventional style showing development of form. Some of these 

 representations conform to the shape of the vessel to which the 

 figurine is attached, and the flanking arm or hand is merely inci- 

 dental. Others, far less numerous, are modeled free and appear 

 to have been at one time a part of some figurine used perhaps as a 

 zemi. Representations of the foot or hand have only four digits, 

 and slightly removed is a wen or knob representing perhaps the 

 wrist joint or ankle. 



In the Museum of the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo 

 City are three large earthenware effigy water containers in which 

 the entire vessel has been molded to conform to some part of the in- 

 tended figurine. (PI. 8.) These effigy water containers are quite large, 

 one of them being more than 2 feet in height. They are shaped to 

 represent crouching figures; their use, other than that as con- 

 tainers for liquids, is problematical. One of these containers is 

 almost identical with an earthenware effigy figured by W. E. Roth 

 in Plate 26 of the Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. This human effigy vessel, along with several 

 other earthenware effigy figures now in the Georgetown Museum, 

 British Guiana, reveals a close connection between early Arawak 

 pottery in Santo Domingo and that of the early tribes of Guiana. 



The representation of a seated figure, one side flat and the other 

 side rounded, was collected by Eraser at Puerto Plata. The front 

 view shows a portion of the head and the body, legs, and arms, the 

 arms being flexed upon the breast. Representations of the ribs and 

 of several of the vertebral processes are shown in the side view. The 

 umbilicus and male sexual organs are visible. The thigh, indi- 

 cated by a ring, is double at one point or broken, as is common in 

 incised decorations of this character. The toes appear below the 

 rump; the upper leg and knee are well modeled. (PI. 5.) 



Fewkes describes an effigy vase from a cave near the Aguas 

 Buenas, not far from Caguas, Porto Rico, representing an animal 

 recumbent on its back, head and tail protruding from opposite ends, 

 the inverted body of the animal serving as the body of the vessel. 

 Many nodes consisting of nucleated circles mark the terminations 

 of legs, and joints, as the knees and elbows, are placed, through 

 lack of space, in angular positions. Features of the face are also 

 indicated in the main through the raised nucleated circle. Incised 

 V-shaped figures fill in the intervening spaces at the sides. . 



An effigy form is figured by Pinart, who ascribes the ownership 

 to Padre Bellini, of Santo Domingo. Of reddish-brown clay, 7^/2 



