AFFILIATIONS OF SANTO DOMINGAN POTTERY 111 



pears elsewhere on the Gulf coast as well. This similarity is 

 offset by the dissimilar pedestal base of the Ohio Valley group and 

 in the bulging midsection in the body of certain typical Ohio Valley 

 mound vessels. Flat loop handles occurring four to the vessel, how- 

 ever, appear both in Santo Domingo and the Ohio Valley groups, 

 also in Florida. 



Certain similarities in the decorations of the incised and stamped 

 forms from the Northwest group in Illinois, however, take us too 

 far afield; here even the incised ware is entirely dominated by such 

 extraneous features as roulette designs and the cord and textile 

 decorated ware of Wisconsin. A rather startling coincidence is a 

 striking similarity in pottery from the Northwest group belonging 

 to the Alandan Indians of Dakota in the vessel marked 6 figured in 

 Plate 176 of the Twentieth Annual Report of the Bureavi of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology. Identity in design with Santo Domingan forms is 

 noted both in the incipient etched decorative design of banded 

 spirals and in the flat-looped handle lugs. That similarities should 

 exist in such widely separated aboriginal pottery areas as Santo 

 Domingo and Dakota may be ascribed to the elementary nature of 

 all incised decorative designs to which belong simple forms of the 

 spiral. A similar problem is afforded by the incised designs on 

 earthenware vessels from a Pawnee village site in Nebraska, figured 

 in Plate 177 of the Twentieth Annual Report of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. 



Pottery is still made by the Cherokee and Catawba Indians of 

 North and South Carolina. A collection of modern pottery from 

 these tribes now in the United States National Museum shows the 

 careless use of the curvilinear stamp and but faint traces of ancient 

 pottery forms. The influence of modern culture has introduced 

 many new forms, such as wall brackets, flower vases, book ends, 

 and others. The typical historical pottery of different areas in 

 the Southeast varies in form, paste, temper, color, decoration, and 

 paint. On the basis of these distinctions we may speak of the 

 stamped curvilinear designs as common prehistoric pottery from 

 Georgia and Florida ; of incised lines in free-hand or carelessly made 

 punctations as characteristic of mound pottery from eastern Missis- 

 sippi; or we may speak of the mound pottery from western and 

 central Mississippi as characterized by a decorative design of curved 

 bands of finely incised parallel lines made by trailing; roulette in- 

 cised forms are characteristic of western Florida and the Alabama 

 coast. 



Applied decorative design likewise varies from area to area, rang- 

 ing from the crudely modeled figurines, principally of animals and 

 birds, from the east coast of Florida to the highly conventionalized 

 art of realistic modeling of the human head with realistic facial 



