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resemble examples from Porto Eico and Santo Domin<ro, while 2 

 compartment vessels occur resembling the red-ware bowffrom Sam- 

 ana. Incised and impressed ornamentations are rare in the Vir<Tin 

 Islands, and when executed the patterns are simple. Walls are 

 thicker than in similar vessels from Porto Eico and Santo Domingo 

 Some of the vessels have a red slip on the outer walls and extendin.^ 

 over the rim on the inside. Similar vessels have sometimes more 

 elaborate decoration of painted scrolls in red facing one another in 

 the inside of tue bowl, resembling incised recurved volutes from 

 the Bahamas. 



In the representative archeological collection of Mr. F. Andersen 

 Emgshill, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, are many fragmentary and 

 whole pieces of aboriginal ceramics resembling in the main the 

 earthenware of Santo Domingo in form and in design. Mr. Ander- 

 sen carefully excavated a midden on the bank of a stream in the 

 center of the island of St. Croix. The clay bank yielded cultural 

 deposits to the depth of C feet; elsewhere, the midden depos sTn 

 St. Croix rarely exceed 2 feet in depth. 



bollrid n?'"'^ earthenware consists of figurine heads, sections of 

 bowls and of water bottles or of vases resembling the Santo Domin<.an 

 wa er bottle minus the figurine head embellishment on the loC 

 neck sector. Several large bowls were recovered intact or but slilX 

 broken about tlie hp. None of these vessels have figurine hea^dl n 



ontoZ -V" ;'"'' T"""- ^■»"""™ '--'^ "^ apparently itted 

 onto the sides of vessels in the same manner as in Porto Eico and 



Santo Domingo, and show the same variety of animal forms In 



r^"!"hatrT ;"'-"<'-=-":S «g"™-- ™th high-standing head- 

 dress 01 Iiair tuft, and prominently protruding snout and nostril 

 holes, as represented in this St. Croix collection, are typicaT of 

 Lesser Ant, lean forms. On the other hand, eye and ear forms 

 the former shaped by incising two concentric circles and the S 

 by an accentuated double-Iobed ear, resemble Tainan e.^ forms of 

 Santo Dommgo. Certain depressed head forms, wliose profir rt- 

 embles a series of concentric crescents in relief, al o resemble Tainan 

 techmc from Santo Domingo. The uorniserl o„„„f -I, 

 nostras is decidedly non-Tainant^T^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 Antilles. Bowls belong apparently to two wares one of whth 

 massive in form with thick walls but covered oT iie L i vll out 

 surface above the shoulder with characteristic Tainan indsed n t 

 terns in circles, rectangles, straight and curved lines These ar " 

 lowever, no less associated with terminal punctation s We"s and 



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