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umbilicus of the figurine. The interior of the neck of the vessel 

 shows how elaborately fitted together are the several luted-on parts 

 of the decorative embellishments. The vessel is an excellent example 

 of Antillean potter's art but diverges from the primitive Ciguayan 

 type of water bottle, which was plain and of unpainted red terra-cotta 

 ware. 



The more common form of Santo Domingan earthenware canteen 

 and water bottle is undecorated except at the neck, which is usually 

 bulbous below and constricted just below the marginal rim. 



There are two types of earthenware water bottles with effigies 

 either of animal or hmnan forms luted onto the neck or incorporated 

 as a part of the walls of the body. One of these, usually of gray 

 ware, is quite large, sometimes standing 3 feet in height. It is oval 

 or rounded in outline, tending in some examples to become heart 

 shaped. The figurine head appearing on the neck of the bottle or 

 container usually is applied at two opposite sides of the neck, the 

 space between being filled in with incised line etchings forming 

 panels. Three exceptionally good examples of this type of effigy 

 water bottle are now in the Dominican National Museum. (Pis. 

 9, 11.) Another is in the private collection of Senor Andres Socias, 

 of Copey, Monte Cristi. A smaller type of so-called heart-shaped 

 water bottle (pi. 10), characteristic of southeastern Santo Domingo, 

 is more common and has been preserved because of the strength of 

 its walls and its diminutive size. Where the large water bottle had 

 been placed as a grave offering in the cemetery at Andres the pressure 

 of the sand was such as to break in the walls. The smaller heart- 

 shaped bottle is frequently recovered intact. Doctor Fewkes, in the 

 Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 figures an excellent specimen. The writer recovered three similar 

 heart-shaped water bottles with decorated neck sector from the 

 Arawak cemetery at Andres, the smaller of which had a height of 

 4.4 inches (10.9 centimeters) and a maximum transverse section of 

 3.4 inches (8.7 centimeters), the larger, a height of 8 inches (20.5 

 centimeters) and a maximum transverse section of 6.4 inches (16.2 

 centimeters). (PI. 10.) These water bottles are heavily walled, flat 

 bottomed, depressed oval in section, thus giving the typical heart- 

 shaped outline. The neck is bulbous, incorporating bilaterally placed 

 animal figurine heads representing the frog in conventional design. 

 No decorative design appears on the bod}^ of the bottle except occa- 

 sional etched lines, circles, and dots, with angular spurs filling in the 

 triangular spaces. 



Many heads and necks of earthenware water bottles were col- 

 lected from the mountainous interior of La Vega Province; that is, 

 in the Valley of Constanza. The bodies of these vessels have been 



