AFFILIATIONS OF SANTO DOMINGAN POTTERY 113 



an ornamental zone of incised meandered curvilinear and straight 

 lines terminating in incised whorls or imcleated circles. This type 

 of vessel appears very frequently in collections of unpainted terra- 

 cotta ware from many sites in Porto llico and in Santo Domingo. 

 Applied bird head figurines from this area, however, have a style 

 different from the bird heads on Santo Domingan pottery. This 

 is characterized in the more sophisticated modeling of the beak with 

 a greater detail, such as crosshatching and relief paneling, intaglio 

 surfaces, giving a generally more realistic effect. The same applies 

 to modeled heads of anthropouiorphic type, all of which from the 

 Alabama Gulf coast show more realism than do those from Santo 

 Domingo. Incised meanders forming incomplete scrolls, T-shaped 

 figures, worm or snakelike representation, nucleated circle, mean- 

 dered bands filled with strips of plain color or punctation, all char- 

 acteristic of the area, are similar to Santo Domingan forms. Ap- 

 plied flat handles, either in pairs or at right angles, are infrequent 

 on ihe Gulf coast, though quite common on the Atlantic coast of 

 Santo Domingo. Shallow bowls with incurved rims and rounded 

 bottom have incised decorative panels of parallel horizontal and 

 curvilinear patterns identical on the Florida north coast and on the 

 north coast of Santo Domingo. (Holmes, pi. TO, c. Twentieth 

 Annual Eeport of the Bureau of American Ethnology.) 



We have here also the 2-compartment, or the superimposed shallow 

 vessel fitted to the upper rim of another vessel, both of which are 

 covered either in whole or in part with angular or meandered cur- 

 vilinear incised line pattern. Wavy or scalloped rim sectors also 

 appear. These vessels occurring in the Gulf coast are practically 

 identical with Iroquoian forms from central New York and Domini- 

 can forms from Andres. Two horizontal compartment vessels sepa- 

 rated by a diaphragm and surmounted at the center with figurine 

 heads occur here for the first time in the form almost identical with 

 2-comi3artment bowls surmounted by figurine head from the Prov- 

 inces of Samana and Monte Cristi. Flat shallow bowls with bird 

 figurine heads at the margin appear to be closely related in Flo- 

 ridian forms and in those from the Dominican sites. Perhaps the 

 most common form of bird represented is the owl, with its peculiar 

 triangular head form indicated in simple outline. (Holmes, pi. 74, 

 «, &, <?, Twentieth Annual Keport of the Bureau of American 

 Enthnology.) 



Decorative zones of design formed by pinching the clay while 

 still plastic alternate with stamped designs on the upper outer 

 surface of vessels from the Gulf coast of Florida. Both of these 

 types of decorative design, however, do not appear in Santo 

 Domineo. 



