98 BULLETIN 15 6, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Andres, found at a depth of 4 feet. The incised line decorative 

 design occupies an encircling panel, separated from the margin by 

 an incised groove ; the applied bat figurines at either end appear in 

 high relief above the rim level and are unusual in that both upper 

 and lower limbs are represented. The unusually thin walls, which 

 are less than one-eighth of an inch in thickness, combine with a 

 decorative design consisting of minutely spaced diagonal parallel 

 lines and terminal dots altei-nating with concentric circles and end 

 figurines in high relief. This black ware is one of the most distinct 

 types of aboriginal Santo Domingan pottery. 



In marked contrast with the thin-walled black ware vessel just 

 described is a chocolate-colored, thick-walled, globose bowl resem- 

 bling pottery types of the Lesser Antilles. Although recovered 

 from the midden at Andres, it reveals no resemblances to other 

 earthenware vessels excavated from the Tainan cemetery and midden 

 at that site. The vessel is unique in form in that the rounded, shal- 

 low, cazuelalike body has an almost vertical 2-inch extension of the 

 oral sector equal in height to the walls of the body of the vessel. 

 This extended neck is joined to the walls of the traylike bowl at a 

 distance of one-half inch from the margin, forming a projecting 

 ledge, the vessel giving the impression of a cylinder placed over a 

 saucer. The walls of the vessel reach the unusual thickness of one- 

 fourth inch in section. The paste, unlike that of any other earthen- 

 ware vessel recovered at Andres, is of a uniform brown color, porous 

 and friable, somewhat of the consistency of pasteboard, resembling 

 in this respect the Eskimo wares. An incised decorative panel en- 

 circles the outer surface of the high neck. It consists of five massive 

 encircling grooves broken by occasional short vertical lines. The 

 terminal pit, although infrequently applied, is present and forms 

 the single design linking this bowl (U.S.N.M. No. 349354, pi. 46) 

 with the southeast Santo Domingan wares. An applied figurine 

 head consists of a horizontal beak in high relief flanked by eye punc- 

 tations, and what appears to be a representation of an aviform ear 

 consisting of a lesser punctation just in front of the eye. 



Earthenware bowl, boat-shaped, 5.7 inches (14.5 centimeters) 

 long, 3.4 inches (8.7 centimeters) deep, 5.1 inches (13 centimeters) 

 wide. Patches of a red paint may still be seen on the decorated 

 incurved walls above shoulder. A truncated flat but slightly de- 

 pressed bottom. The shoulder is angular. The decorative design 

 panel encircling the incurved shoulder consists of short transverse 

 vertical lines alternating with circle and dot and crescent-shaped 

 incised lines. The bilaterally applied figurine heads are of the 

 depressed and conventionalized monkey-face type. Andres. (PI. 56, 

 second row, right.) 



