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eyes, circular flat disk with coffee bean slit or circular punctation 

 representing the pupil ; the bulbous nose and incised slit representing 

 the mouth as in the red painted ware from Andres; knobbed exten- 

 sion of the handle lugs in the form of alligator head modelings — all 

 these are similarities in prehistoric Trinidad and Santo Domingan 

 wares.^^ 



Dissimilarities may be seen in the long angular neck, bloated face 

 form, angularity of figurine head, discoidal or flat relief features 

 of Trinidad ware, and in the lack of concentric circles, depressed 

 face, and deep pits surrounded with concentric rings resembling 

 goggles as in Santo Domingan terra-cotta ware. Fewkes's studies 

 of the pottery from a shell heap at Erin Bay, Trinidad, were made 

 during the winter of 1912-13, while during the early months of 

 1915 De Booy excavated a midden deposit at Giri-Giri on Margarita 

 Island, off the northern coast of Venezuela. Most of the pottery heads 

 excavated by Fewkes at Erin Bay, Trinidad, are painted, while 

 the Giri-Giri examples from Margarita Island show no painted 

 decoration. Heads recovered by De Booy near Cape Mayaro, Trini- 

 dad, show resemblance to the Margarita specimens. 



Fragments of vessels found by De Booy in the Giri-Giri midden 

 were painted in red, white, and brown designs like the St. Kitts 

 example figured in Plate 45. Other shards of similar type have been 

 found on the Carib islands of Carriacou and St. Vincent, but are not 

 found elsewhere in Trinidad, indicating that Carib middens are 

 more common to St. Vincent and Carriacou than to Trinidad and 

 Margarita Islands. The peculiar massiveness of earthenware ves- 

 sels, particularly of a shallow bowl with broad angular rim and 

 painted design in polj^chrome, also of the modeled clay heads with 

 their bloated appearance, as contrasted with the more pinched ex- 

 pression of the Taino modelings from Santo Domingo; also the 

 painted red, black, white, and polychrome designs from the Carib 

 island of IMontserrat — all these are characteristic of so-called Carib 

 designs and forms. The red, also the red and white painted heads ; 

 also the red painted heads and the polychrome geometric designs 

 from southwest Porto Rico, although coming from Tainan territory 

 are similar to Carib decorative embellishments from the Lesser 

 Antilles. As a rule the rims of the earthenware vessels from Santo 

 Domingo have approximately the same thickness as walls of the 

 vessels themselves, whereas in Trinidad they are often enlarged, or 

 turned back as in the thick-walled St. Kitts pottery (pi. 45), and are 

 commonly ornamented with figures on the inside as is the pottery 

 from Grenada and St. Vincent. (See pi. 36 for similar Constanza 

 example.) 



® Fewkes, J. Walter, A Prehistoric Island Culture Area of America, Thirty-fourth Ann. 

 Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethu. (1912-13), pp. 49-271, 1922. 



