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quently only the surface has been discolored by firing, so that the 

 natural color of the gray clay remains. 



Funeral urns have decorations on both inner and outer wall sur- 

 face (compare Constanza fragment, pi. 36). Lids and pedestal 

 bases are common elements of form. Rim fragments show three 

 kinds of vessels : Wide-mouthed pots or bowls with outcurved rims ; 

 narrow-mouthed bottles with outcurved rims; shallow bowls with- 

 out necks and with hollow rims. The first type is common. 



The large mortuary jars or urns offer little that might be offered 

 as evidence of contact with aboriginal pottery form and design 

 of Santo Domingo. Small earthenware vessels from Aruba show 

 resemblances in the incurved rim occurring on shallow hemispherical 

 flattened bowls, and in the transversely incised bulbous rims. Tall, 

 flaring annular bases, however, are not found in aboriginal Santo 

 Domingan pottery, as in that of Aruba. 



Earthenware fragments showing painted line designs are not 

 duplicated in Santo Domingan middens, although rim fragments 

 showing additional rim coils luted on the outer lip occur in Santo 

 Domingan middens in quantity. Figurine heads have eye represen- 

 tations of the pitted, also of the applied, incised coffee-bean types, 

 in the form of protuberances or clay buttons, pierced or incised 

 lengthwise and encircled with an incised circle. Nose forms appear 

 with or without nostril pits; bat and owl shaped figurine heads are 

 frequent; frog designs in series range from the realistic to the con- 

 ventional as in Santo Domingo. Clay ribbons flank molded figurine 

 heads; handle loop and figurine head are combined, and the use of 

 incised lines and pits in conjunction with knobs, wens, bosses, and 

 buttons betrays a close relationship with plastic pottery decorative 

 design from Santo Domingo, which the painted embellishments 

 would seem to belie. Hollow clay heads, stamps, and other of the 

 elements of plastic design referred to as practically identical with 

 Santo Domingan decorative forms are figured by De Jong. Such 

 characteristically Tainan design elements, however, as the broken 

 incised line terminated with the pit incision, is lacking from Aruba, 

 but encircling bands of punctations, indentations, and corrugations 

 appear in both areas. Handle loops without other decorative em- 

 bellishments, hollow knobs, pits with raised bands of clay encircling 

 them, foot representations with incisions marking toe forms — all 

 these are similar elements of form and decorative design. Hollow 

 rims, however, do not occur in Santo Domingo. 



Several earthenware grave finds from the Atlantic coast of Darien, 

 on the Gulf of Uraba, at La Gloria, are described by S. Linne in 

 Darien in the Past.^^ These examples of ancient Panaman ceramics 



*' Unn€, S., Darien in the Past. Goteborg, 1929. 



