TYPE EXAMPLES IN THE NATIONAL COLLECTION 99 



Boat-shaped earthenware vessel, 5.3 inches (13.5 centimeters) 

 long, 3.3 inches (8.3 centimeters) deep, 3.8 inches (9.7 centimeters) 

 wide. There is a pronounced extension of the flat bottom below 

 the rounded walls of the vessel. This forms as near an approach 

 to an annular foot as is ever found in Santo Domingan aboriginal 

 earthenware vessels. The incurved wall above the shoulder ridge 

 is decorated as usual with characteristic Tainan patterns consisting 

 of applied and incised designs ; the applied designs being bilaterally 

 placed figurine heads, the incised lines being diagonal, incised lines 

 alternating with circle and dot or nucleated circle designs. Andres. 

 (PI. 54, upper row, end and profile.) 



Boat-shaped earthenware bowl, 5.4 inches (13.7 centimeters) long, 

 3.8 inches (9.6 centimeters) wide, 3.7 inches (9.4 centimeters) deep. 

 Indications of a chocolate-colored slip remain on the curved sector 

 below the shoulder ridge. Practically no trace of a flattened area 

 which might be called bottom. The incurved walls above the equa- 

 tor or shoulder of the vessel are decorated with deeply cut lines 

 forming concentric rectangles bisected by the shoulder ridge. The 

 usual figurine heads are luted on bilaterally at prow and stern of the 

 boat-shaped vessel. The figurine head handle or lug is reinforced 

 by the retention of a handle loop below the applied figurine head. 

 We might reconstruct a chronological sequence in the history of 

 this form of decoration, beginning with a vertical coiled ribbon of 

 clay molded into the form of a flat loop which later has traced on 

 it etchings representing some animal form. Still later the animal 

 representation is more realistically molded. In a still later stage it 

 appears in conventional form. In each of these stages the original 

 handle loop may or may not be retained. If retained, it is frequently 

 no longer as an actual loop but as a flattened folded clay ribbon, 

 purely decorative. Andres. (PI. 42, lower row, right.) 



Boat-shaped earthenware vessel, length, 3.7 inches (9.4 centi- 

 meters), width, 3.4 inches (8.7 centimeters), depth, 2.1 inches (5.3 

 centimeters). Instead of the usual application of figurine head at 

 either end, this vessel, although diminutive in size, has two pairs 

 of miniature animal figurine heads applied bilaterally. They are 

 of the conventional type of Tainan plastic sculpture consisting of 

 concentric circles and two central excavated pits at the depressed 

 center, the circles appearing in relief, the outer circle being the 

 more prominent. This type of design appears in different forms, 

 sometimes one circle, sometimes several being employed representing 

 eyes with the centrally excavated pits. Andres. (PI. 52, upper row, 

 end and profile.) 



Boat-shaped earthenware bowl, 4.6 inches (11.7 centimeters) long, 

 4.1 inches (10.5 centimeters) wide, 2.2 inches (5.6 centimeters) deep. 



