160 BULLETIN 15 6, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Plate 41 



Two examples of boat-shaped, globose, knobbed, yellow-ware burial vessels 

 from a cave near Kingston, Jamaica, U.S.N.M. Nos. 341664 and 341669 



Plate 42 



Vessels shown at top row are trencher-shaped yellow-veare burial vessels from 

 a cave near Kingston, Jamaica 



The bowls are plain except for projecting points at ends, which, in the case of 

 the vessel on the right, is provided with knobbed projections, U.S.N.M. No, 

 341661. At one end of this vessel a calcareous deposit including several human 

 teeth is visible. 



The bowls in the lower row from left to right, U.S.N.M. Nos. 349357, 349368, 

 and 349353, were excavated in the aboriginal cemetery adjoining the Dominican 

 village of Andres, Province of Santo Domingo. Dimensions of the bowl in the 

 lower left-hand corner are, length S^/^ inches, depth 1% inches; of the bowl in 

 the lower right-hand corner, length 5^/4 inches, depth 3^/^ inches. The dimen- 

 sions of the vessels from Jamaica shown in the upper portion of the plate are 

 not true to scale, being relatively twice the size of those shown below. 



Plate 43 



Boat-shaped vessels and a 4-lobed, heavy-walled earthenware jar 



The vessel at left is a reconstruction of bowl end fragments collected by Dr. 

 W. L. Abbott in northern Santo Domingo. 



The vessel at the right, U.S.N.M. No. 221079, was collected by Doctor Fewkes 

 in Porto Rico. There is a resemblance in thickness of wall and in shape to the 

 trencher-shaped vessels from Jamaica, but the color and paste differ. It is also 

 provided, as may be seen, with looped handles, while the Jamaican forms are 

 provided with knobs representing conventionalized animal heads. 



The lobed earthenware jar figured at the center was recovered by Dr. \V. l->. 

 Abbott from the Cueva de Roma in northern Santo Domingo. This vessel is« 

 unusual in the extreme, in thickness of wall, in shape, in paste, but not in 

 applied ornamentation, no other vessel of this type being known in any collection 

 of aboriginal pottery from Santo Domingo. U.S.N.M. No. 316445. 



Plate 44 



Two boat-shaped earthenware vessels from Cape Maise, Santiago, Province of 

 Oriente, U.S.N.M. Nos. 215405 and 215406, collected by C. J. Frye 



They resemble undecorated boat-shaped vessels from Jamaica, however, with 

 this distinction, that Jamaican vessels are knobbed at the raised prow and 

 stern, while these examples of Cuban wares are provided with obliquely placed 

 slab extensions of the rim. These serve as handle lugs, but are apparently dete- 

 riorated conventionalized life forms. A perforation has been made at the center 

 of each lug. The discolorations on the vessel at the right are due to weathering. 

 Neither of the examples shown is provided with a slip. Dimensons : lOV^ 

 inches in diameter, 514 inches in depth. 



