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numerous but followed in form and decorative design their proto- 

 types in stone. 



Bowls. — An earthenware bowl from Andres habitation site, 14,4 

 inches (36.7 centimeters) in diameter, 9.3 inches (16 centimeters) 

 in height, has a salmon-colored slip. It is thick walled, globose 

 with narrow truncated bottom and incurved walls above the angular 

 shoulder ridge. Two bilaterally placed snake figurines embellish 

 the decorative zone, while the intervening space on either side is 

 filled with inscribed panels of incised lines separated from each 

 other by short diagonal incised lines and terminal punctations. 

 (PI. 49.) Figured at one-fourth natural size. 



A boat-shaped earthenware bowl, 11.4 inches (29 centimeters) 

 long, 5.9 inches (15 centimeters) high, and 11.5 inches (29.3 centi- 

 meters) wide, with truncated flat bottom, incurved walls above 

 angular shoulder ridge ; oblong in form, and trencher shaped, ter- 

 minating in a concave margin resembling a boat. Decoration above 

 shoulder consists of horizontal lines alternating with short trans- 

 verse lines and terminal punctations. Unfortunately the figurine 

 heads originally applied bilaterally as decorative lugs have been 

 broken off. From Andres, on the Caribbean coast. (PL 50.) 



Boat-shaped earthenware vessel: 10.4 inches (26.5 centimeters) 

 long; 5.6 inches (14 centimeters) high; 8.1 inches (20.6 centimeters) 

 wide. Red ware, no slip. Lozenge-shaped bodj^ witli small trun- 

 cated flat bottom slightly depressed. Decoration appearing only on 

 upper incurved walls above shoulder ridge, consist of bilaterally 

 applied animal figurine heads alternating with curved horizontal 

 lines in series of two with filJed-in spaces consisting of short ver- 

 tical lines and terminal punctations. At the center of each of these 

 series of vertical lines is a nucleated circle. An original feature in 

 the decoration is the position of the animal figurine heads. In 

 " archaic " forms the figurine head peers into the vessel. The out- 

 ward peering figurine head comes as a later development of design. 

 This bowl represents possibly a still later development in the play 

 of technic, as the figurine head is in a horizontal position with gaze 

 directed sidewise. The added space so obtained makes possible the 

 conventional presentation of the body of the figurine which is 

 effected by means of a raised ribbon of clay terminated by two lesser 

 ribbons representing the legs. A narrow margin free from all 

 decoration separates by means of an incised line the decorative panel 

 encircling the vessel. From Andres. (PI. 54.) 



The globose, round-bottomed black ware bowl (pi. 46), U.S.N.M. 

 No. 349352, is of interest in that it is typical of a ware found repre- 

 sented in shards and fragmentary vessels in the Monte Cristi mid- 

 dens. This boat-shaped example, however, is from the midden at 



