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northwest Florida. Water bottles also have been recovered from 

 the mounds of middle Mississippi Valley, from Louisiana, and from 

 Moundville, Ala. Other similarities of Moundville pottery with 

 that from the Greater Antilles might be pointed out. 



Kinged rims and decorated neck sections of pottery water bottles 

 were found at Anadel, San Juan, and in the cave deposits. Many 

 of these are simple cylinders with an enlarged or reinforced rounded 

 rim. A thick-walled type of water container, shaped from a gray- 

 colored, granular paste differing from the black loamy clay paste 

 from which most of the vessels and potsherds of Samana had been 

 fashioned, is represented also by numerous shards from the Andres 

 midden. 



The bottles figured in Plate 14 reveal a surface finish in two colors, 

 a creamy white and a salmon color. In 1 the contrast between the 

 two colors used is marked. A white slip, perhaps of kaolin, had been 

 applied. This has in part disappeared, giving the peculiarly spotted 

 appearance noted. An animal figurine head had been applied at 

 the side and stands in high relief. The figurine is the characteristic 

 " monkey " type, in which features are represented by transverse 

 lines, the eye by incised circle and dot, while the nose is realistically 

 done and shows wide nostrils. Other decorative attempts consist of 

 raised ridges traversed by wide incised lines. The outline of the 

 bottle appears to have included two or more globular expanding and 

 contracted areas beginning with a globular or bulbous enlargement 

 of the lower neck area. 



In its outline the form of 2 is distinct and more Tainan. It 

 was recovered from the San Juan site. Concentric curvilinear lines 

 at the top are terminated with shallow pits, and are filled in with 

 concentric triangularly incised lines. A raised disk-shaped sur- 

 face at the side of the head of the bottle quite near the rim may have 

 served as a rest when the vessel was tilted. It is impossible to 

 explain the raised disk as an element of decorative embellishment. 

 The rim orifice is narrow, 0.8 inch (2 centimeters) in diameter. 

 Tapered walls of the neck area are plain, except for the luted figurine 

 head apparently wearing a headdress and having pierced ear lobes. 



The neck and head of water bottle 3, Plate 14, U.S.N.M. No. 341037, 

 has a raised rim, well rounded and tapered from the orifice to the 

 neck area. The globular expansion of the walls of the lower neck is 

 studded with raised surfaces and details of the decorative figure. 

 The walls again become constricted before merging with the walls of 

 the body of the vessel. 



In the bottle under description there is a raised disk appearing 

 on the rim section in the form of a nucleated circle. This becomes 

 the head of a figurine, the legs of which appear at the sides of the 

 neck. Another raised disk on the lower neck walls becomes the 



