158 BULLETIN 15 6, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Plate 32 



The small animal figurine at the top, U.S N.M. No. 349273, is shown in profile 

 and from the front. It was recovered while excavating a shallow kitchen 

 midden in the Valley of Constanza, Province of La Vega. The forms figured 

 below represent birds and unknown mammalian forms. The figure at center 

 with eye orbits on top of head and large gaping mouth resembles similar 

 forms from St. Kitts of the Lesser Antilles. Constanza, Province of La 

 Vega 



Plate 33 



The three figurine heads at the left are from Porto Rico, and are covered with 

 a brilliant red paint. The figures at the right, except the one at bottom, are 

 of friable terra-cotta ware from Constanza, Province of La Vega. The 

 figurine head in the lower right-hand corner is covered with a chocolate- 

 colored slip and represents an animal form closely resembling jaguar figurines 

 from Margarita Island and Trinidad. It is foreign to the usual Santo Do- 

 mingan types. It represents, no doubt, a South American mammal. The 

 figurine at upper right represents a species of bat {Marmoops sp.), although 

 it has the appearance of a monkey head 



Plate 34 



Perforated earthenware spindle whorl, clay cylinder, and disc from Province of 



Monte Cristi 



Spindle whorls of earthenware are unusual finds in aboriginal Santo Domin- 

 gan kitchen middens. The cylindrical object illustrated at the center is an 

 earthenware stamp from the Province of Monte Cristi. Many potsherds exca- 

 vated in the former Ciguayan village site designated K 2 in the text shovy 

 impressions similar to that etched on this tubular earthenware stamp. This 

 particular object can not have been used, however, to produce such etched 

 designs, as they would have then appeared in relief instead. Doctor Fewkes 

 illustrates a similar cylindrical earthenware stamp from the Archbishop Meriiio 

 collection. Another was recovered by Doctor Abbott and is now in the Museum 

 collection. The unsymnietrical, fiat, disk-shaped object with incised lines, shown 

 at bottom, is frequently found in Santo Domingan kitchen middens. Province 

 of Monte Cristi. 



Plate 35 



Fragments of flat earthenware inscribed disks excavated in the Province 



of Samana 



The fragmentary object. No. 6, U.S. N.M. No. 341023, is perhaps an earthen- 

 ware spindle whorl different in type from the spherical spindle whorl shown in 

 Plate 34. 



Plate 36 



At the top are figured two fragments of circular, flat disk stamps, while the 

 discoidal stamp third from the left has a handle attached, U.S. N.M. Nos. 

 349391, 349393, 349260, respectively 



This object might well have been used in applying stamped V-shapod pat- 

 terns on the yet plastic surface of earthenware vessels. Attempts were made 

 in the laboratory to use it in this manner with results closely resembling 

 stamped or etched angular designs on earthenware vessels from the Province 

 of Santo Domingo. 



