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divided into twenty parallelograms oi' pellet-like partitions 

 arranged in series of five longitudinal and four transverse. 

 The other panel is one and a half inches by two inches and 

 yet imperfect ; in each case the longer axes of these pellets 

 are parallel to the longer axis of the bowl. 



The form is not that of any Santo pottery I have seen, 

 but the small parallelograms on the decorative panels greatly 

 resemble the rows of pellets that ornament the necks of 

 Santo pots ; they are also seen on Fijian glazed ware. 



Very little appears to have been published on the Santo 

 pottery. All that Codrington* says is that "pottery .. . . 

 being present in well-known forms in Fiji, and in ruder 

 unglazed dishes in Espiritu Santo." Of the latter the E-ev. 

 Robert Steel said : — " They make a kind of unglazed pottery, 

 which they use for culinary purposes ; but they all say their 

 fathei's made a far superior kind."^ 



In Mr. G. Collingridge's translation of the " Spanish 

 Description of the Big Bay of Santo " occurs the following 

 passage: — "The natives make from a black clay some very 

 well-worked pots, laige and small, as well as pans and 

 poi-ingers in the shape of small boats. "^ This bowl (Pi. xxxvi., 

 fig. 1 ; PI. xxxvii., fig. 1) is not unlike a boat. 



Mr. Fysh, to whom the Trustees are indebted for this bowl 

 also, suggested a Spanish origin, but this is untenable, for in 

 Captain James Barney's account7 of Pedro Fernandez de 

 Quires' stay in the Bay of St. Philip and St. James, it is 

 said the people " make earthen vessels ; work on marble and 

 on stone." The sum of this is, therefore, that pottery 

 making was an established industry aronnd " New Jerusalem," 

 on tiie bay in question, at Espiritu Santo, previous to 1606 

 A.D.! 



* Codrington — Melanesians, 1891, p. 315. 



^ Steel — New Hebrides and Christian Missions, 1880, p. 332. 



« CoUingridge — First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea 8vo 

 Edit., 1906, p. 107. 



^ Burney — Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in 

 the South or Pacific Ocean, Pt. II., 1579—1620, 1806, p. 309. 



