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cazuela or flat shallow-bottomed vessel without handles or decora- 

 tive embellishment similar to that from Cuba and Santo Domingo. 

 Similarly, no large containers showing cord impressions similar to 

 the large salt jars used in Tennessee have been found. 



Battles have been found in considerable quantity by the writer 

 in Samana, Monte Cristi, and on the Caribbean coast at Andres. 

 However, these were not free objects such as occur in the middle 

 Mississippi Valley, nor attached to pottery vessels as leg supports 

 as in Panama and the Lesser Antilles, but in every case were ap- 

 plied as handles, or shaped into earthenware figurine heads serving 

 as lugs to earthenware vessels. Likewise the presence of small 

 stone pebbles rather than of clay pellets is to be noted in the Santo 

 Domingo rattles. No spool-shaped or hourglass-shaped earthenware 

 forms resembling modeling tools or trowels as in Gulf Coast States 

 have been recovered, although several small pestlelike earthenware 

 forms with flaring rounded base are now in the United States 

 National Museum from Santo Domingo. 



Urns containing fragmentary and intact slculls have been re- 

 covered by the writer in Samana and La Vega Provinces. As in 

 the Southeast, urn burial is secondary, as only some of the long 

 bones and skulls were included within the urns. At Samana earth- 

 enware urn burial with covering of bowls was observed at Anadel 

 similar to that known from Georgia and Alabama. Santo Domingo 

 has no mortuary vases with a portrait death mask like those from 

 the middle Mississippi Valley; neither are there any toylike vessels, 

 " extemporized earthenware," or small animal figurines used as burial 

 offerings as in Florida. One small animal figurine of black-colored 

 earthenware was dug up in a kitchen midden at Constanza, but none 

 were found in cemeteries. The realism of the Southeast, also the 

 richness of form of Mexican examples, is wanting. Isolated, free- 

 standing or toylike figurines representing, for example, a baby and 

 cradle board; or small earthenware figures suggesting modelings 

 from the Mexican archaic ; or small earthenware images of a turtle, 

 frog, or other animal forms have not been found in Santo Domingo, 

 although highly artistic examples of such forms appear in wood, 

 stone, or shell. Personal ornaments of earthenware so characteristic 

 of the middle and lower Mississippi Valley, including beads, pendants, 

 labrets, ear plugs, etc., have not been seen in Santo Domingo. 

 Pottery disks, such as those recovered in the Ohio Valley and in 

 Kentucky, perhaps used in playing games, do not occur in Santo Do- 

 mingo, However, several lozenge-shaped or spherical pottery disks, 

 apparently spindle whorls and divination tops, do occur and have 

 been recovered by the writer in Samana and Monte Cristi Provinces. 

 The large number of pottery circular disk stamps have been ade- 



