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has eyes and mouth in relief, the ears being represented at either side. 

 The mouth of this water bottle is nipple shaped, a rare form, al- 

 though others have been found at Andres on the south coast. 



Earthenware water bottles with regularly formed necks occur in 

 the Greater Antilles only in Santo Domingo, and except for two or 

 three fragmentary examples have not been recovered from any other 

 of the islands of the West Indian Archipelago. Similar water 

 bottles of earthenware are found in several culture areas of North 

 and South America, but not in middle America. The huastekan 

 type of water canteen with its long oblique neck section is dis- 

 similar to the Samana types, of which apparently there are two. 

 The simpler of these neck forms, of which a large number were 

 found at San Juan, has a plain, short, cylindrical, constricted neck. 

 The other more artistic and highly specialized type has a long neck 

 with a knobbed or bulbous rim. An anthropomorphic or zoomor- 

 phic face is molded as a decorative embellishment of the lower neck ; 

 the upper portion of the neck area has a circular ringlike enlarge- 

 ment. This type of water bottle reappears in Panama and in the 

 Andean region of South America. A third characteristic, that of 

 arched mammae on the body of the water vase or bottle, appears 

 alike in Ciguayan and Panaman water bottles. 



A human effigy vase (Tule Indians of the San Bias coast, Panama.) for storing 

 chicha is made of blaclv ware, heavily stained with chicha and uniformly 

 blackened from smoke. The general form of the vase is spherical, with a 

 constricted, tubular neck orifice elongated to one-third the total height of the 

 vessel. A combination of coiling with modeling by the potter's hand, aided 

 with a calabash shell and a knife, was the method employed in its production. 

 The human facial features stand out in low relief, filleted on the surface of the 

 neck piece, as are also the arm representations on the walls of the body of the 

 vessel, an ornamentation technique reminiscent of ancient Chibcha ware from 

 Colombia." 



The descriptions of an effigy canteen from Panama is similar to 

 that of U.S.N.M. No. 341038 (No. 3, pi. 15), from San Juan. This 

 type of canteen differs from the other Ciguayan forms in that the 

 features representing the anthropomorphic design appear on the 

 spherical body of the vessel rather than on the constricted neck 

 section. The eye appears as a circular raised coil or ribbon of clay 

 with a central shallow pit ; the nose is straight and prominent, form- 

 ing a clear-cut wedge ; the mouth area is an oval strip of clay, across 

 the center of which is a deep incision. The ear likewise appears as 

 a raised and slightly curved strip of clay luted vertically on the 

 sloping shoulder of the vessel. 



Similar canteens, but without the narrow necks of the Santo 

 Domingan water bottles, have been found on the Gulf coast of 



•■^ Kricgror, II. W., Material Culture of the People of Southeastern Panama, based on 

 specimens in the United States National Museum, Bull. 134, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1926. 



