TYPE EXAMPLES IN" THE NATIONAL COLLECTION 89 



with straight or slightly incurved necks merging into canteen or 

 bottle forms. 



All of the elements characteristic of Santo Domingan water bottles 

 reappear in the water bottles from the Ancles, even to the modeled 

 face on the neck. The Santo Domingan bottle frequently is char- 

 acterized by the peculiar heart shape, often expanded into two 

 mammae ; also by a modeled figurine head applied to the lower neck 

 area. The bottle has a ringlike thickening of the upper neck. 

 Such a vessel is not known from North America. 



A water bottle from the Archbishop Meriilo collection has two 

 lateral extensions, each resembling a human breast with a nipple. 

 Its neck is bottle shaped and bears on one of its sides a face with 

 eyes, nose, and prominent ears in low relief. The base is circular 

 and flat. Incised grooves encircle the top of the breast-shaped lateral 

 extensions surrounding the nipple. Other crescentic lines, broken 

 by two short vertical transversely incised lines each terminated by 

 pits, encircle the breast-shaped extensions immediately below the 

 nipple band. The surface of this vessel is rough, indicating a former 

 polish. This vessel is an elaborate form of the heart-shaped water 

 bottles occurring throughout eastern Santo Domingo. 



Mr. Gabb collected in Santo Domingo a fragmentary earthen- 

 ware bowl, (pi. 40) of spherical form, Avith incurved walls above 

 a well-marked equatorial ridge, and surmounted with straight high 

 rim. The sides of the vessel are decorated with bilaterally placed 

 figurine heads in low relief on the body of the vessel just below the 

 neck. Each head is flanked with figures representing raised hands, 

 palms turned outward. Above the forehead are several ridges, 

 marking a horizontal tubular-shaped figure, a common form of 

 Santo Domingan head turban or headdress, or perhaps merely a 

 conventionalized decorative element. Except for the rather large 

 applied head forms, the walls of the vessel are free from decorative 

 embellishments. 



Another heart-shaped water bottle, globular in form, is from the 

 Archbishop Merino collection. Incised bosses mark the heart- 

 shaped enlargements of the flask. The lower neck region is molded 

 into the shape of a large head with ears represented in the character- 

 istic figure 8 form by means of two circular rings. Eyes are repre- 

 sented by nucleated circles, each perforated. 



Bottle or flask shape forms are represented by examples in the 

 Imbert collection from Puerto Plata. A face in relief appears on 

 one side of the neck. The nose, much enlarged, appears as a series 

 of folds, separated by depressions, filling the space between the 

 eyes. The body of the flask had a pronounced angular form and 

 the characteristic flat circular base. A similar globular water flask 



