AFFILIATIONS OF SANTO DOMINGAN POTTERY 115 



tails as thickness of walls, rim, and bottom, the Florida example 

 being more ponderous than the red ware Dominican example. 



Certain convolute stamped designs from the South Appalachian 

 ceramic group, notably the stamped collar design from Florida and 

 Arkansas; banded incised scrolls from Black Warrior River, Ark.; 

 large indented pits and handles from the Black Warrior River; 

 handles on globular vessels from the same area ; crude line and punc- 

 tate designs combined with applied handles from Hickory Bluff 

 mound, De Soto County ; incised lines and terminal dot or pitted de- 

 signs from pottery deposits in shell mounds— all these are identical 

 with Santo Domingan designs from the midden material of the 

 aorth coast. 



Earthenware vessels from Franklin Parish, La., have crudely 

 incised banded crescents forming a decorative panel encircling the 

 oral sector; vertically incised short lines encircling the vessel re- 

 semble Santo Domingan forms from Andres, on the Caribbean. 



Much of the Gulf pottery is incised or painted over the entire outer 

 wall surface, while Santo Domingan forms have encircling panels 

 only, usually set off from the remainder of the vessel with an incised 

 band. The panel comprising the decorative embellishment lies near 

 the rim and never extends below the equatorial ridge to the incurved 

 lower walls. 



Floridian earthenware forms and decorative or representative de- 

 signs might be expected to yield a certain resemblance to Santo 

 Domingan wares because of proximity and historical records of 

 actual intercourse of Floridian Calusa and Antillean Arawak tribes. 



Tempering materials in Floridian wares consist of fibrous vegetable 

 or root materials ; sand ; pulverized rock and shell ; or in some wares 

 of no artificial tempering objects at all, recourse being had to a 

 naturally tempered clay. In Santo Domingo earthenware forms 

 show a great similarity in tempering materials, as crushed stone, 

 pebbles, and a natural sand. 



Similarities in Santo Domingan and Floridian and Gulf coast 

 wares are frequently to be seen in the cruder, less sophisticated 

 designs, such as might crop out in primitive pottery forms and de- 

 signs of any two pottery-making areas. Such forms as flat-bottomed 

 or shallow globose and spherical bowls with flattened or rounded 

 bottoms, bottles with tall cylindrical necks, flaring or straight rims 

 or lips are often identical in the two areas. Likewise, etched lines 

 in parallel, diagonal, curvilinear, scrolled, and other meandered pat- 

 terns are commonly identical in the two areas. Bands of round, 

 flat-bottomed, also tear-shaped punctations, are likewise shared in 

 the areas compared, although the roulette and figured punched de- 

 signs appear on Floridian ware only, while incised lines and ter- 

 minal pit designs appear only on Santo Domingan vessels. 



