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yet it seems significant that such forms and such patterns, and these only, 

 should be found apparently associated with the Ciboney culture.'* 



It would appear from this that whether Ciboney or Taino, plain, 

 trencher-shaped earthenware vessels are characteristic of Cuba to a 

 greater degree than to Santo Domingo. 



Cuban aboriginal ceramic wares, like those from other islands of 

 the Greater Antilles, are conceived in a different style and executed 

 with a technic distinct from that of the Lesser Antilles. Perhaps 

 the outstanding difference is in form. The heavy walls of such 

 vessels as the painted bowl (U.S.N.M. No. 229777, pi. 45), from the 

 island of St. Kitts, may be compared with the thin-sectioned walls 

 of two earthenware bowls from Cape Maise, Santiago Province, 

 Cuba, collected by C. J. Frye. These vessels (U.S.N.M. Nos. 

 215405-6, pi. 44) resemble rather strongly the Jamaican plain 

 trencher-shaped vessels. A characteristic feature of these bowls is 

 the clay slab lugs applied obliquely to the rim coils at opposite ends. 

 On one of the bowls (U.S.N.M. No. 215405) incised lines appear on 

 the inner surface of the lugs; lugs of the other bowl have scalloped 

 edges. A single perforation transfixes each lug in much the same 

 manner as are the loop handle lugs on Monte Cristi terra-cotta shal- 

 low bowls. U.S.N.M. No. 215405 is globose, trencher-shaped black 

 ware with chocolate colored sides. Shoulder is faintly indicated; 

 bottom is rounded. The outer surface is roughened, with tempering 

 pebbles protruding, inner surface fairly smooth. Dimensions: 10.4 

 inches diameter at shoulder, 4.1 inches deep, and 11.6 inches in 

 length from lug to lug. 



The more oval, plain, globose trencher-shaped bowl (U.S.N.M. 

 No. 251406) has a sharply defined shoulder and rounded bottom. 

 Surfaces are burnished, but here, too, shell and pebbles used as a 

 temper occasionally protrude from the thin walls. The vessel is a 

 brick-colored terra cotta. Dimensions: 10.7 inches in length at 

 shoulder, 9.5 inches wide, and 5.3 inches deep. 



Jamaican dborigindl earthenware. — Jamaican ware is unique 

 among Antillean earthenware in that it is thin walled, considering 

 the size of the vessels. Boat-shaped light buff or yellow colored 

 funerary vessels containing cranial fragments from a cave near 

 Kingston, Jamaica, now in the Museum collection (pis. 40-42), are 

 typical of this ware. Characteristic of Jamaican figurine heads are 

 the large modeled eye sockets. Another characteristic of Jamaican 

 figurine heads is the absence of the grotesque. Also lacking is the 

 so-called monkey type, consisting of concentric incised lines and 

 relief features characterized by compressed center but a bulging 

 bottom and top. The aviform or triangular bat-shaped head, as in 



^ Cuba before Columbus. Indian Notes and Monogr. Mas. Amer. Indian, Ileye Founda- 

 lion, vol. 2, pp. 394-396, 1921. 



