﻿ABORIGINES 
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  503 
  

  

  pottery 
  from 
  Haiti 
  and 
  Porto 
  Rico 
  a 
  position 
  superior 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  

   Carib 
  from 
  the 
  Lesser 
  Antilles. 
  This 
  applies 
  only 
  to 
  the 
  painted 
  

   ware 
  which 
  is 
  less 
  common 
  than 
  the 
  unpainted 
  ware. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  aboriginal 
  pottery 
  from 
  Santo 
  Domingo 
  and 
  Haiti, 
  tempering 
  

   materials 
  are 
  uniformly 
  of 
  small 
  particles 
  of 
  steatite, 
  sand, 
  and 
  

   pebbles, 
  and 
  occasionally 
  ashes 
  or 
  fragments 
  of 
  potsherds. 
  

  

  Potteiy 
  forms 
  are 
  less 
  ornate 
  and 
  varied 
  in 
  detail 
  than 
  are 
  corre- 
  

   sponding 
  forms 
  from 
  Central 
  America, 
  but 
  are 
  more 
  developed 
  than 
  

   those 
  recovered 
  from 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  Venezuela. 
  Bottoms 
  are 
  flat 
  or 
  

   shghtly 
  concave, 
  without 
  support 
  flanges, 
  legs 
  or 
  rings. 
  This 
  char- 
  

   acteristic 
  at 
  once 
  distinguishes 
  West 
  Indian 
  Arawak 
  ceramics 
  from 
  

   Central 
  American 
  forms, 
  and 
  to 
  a 
  lesser 
  extent 
  from 
  Carib 
  forms 
  in 
  the 
  

   Lesser 
  Antilles. 
  Then, 
  the 
  large 
  globular 
  urns 
  or 
  general 
  utihty 
  

   vessels 
  from 
  tropical 
  South 
  American 
  tribes 
  are 
  lacking, 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  

   Haitian 
  forms 
  being 
  fairly 
  thin 
  walled 
  and 
  small 
  in 
  size, 
  although 
  the 
  

   terra 
  cotta 
  group 
  has 
  a 
  coarse 
  paste 
  and 
  is 
  frequently 
  thick 
  walled. 
  

  

  Food 
  pots 
  are 
  like 
  those 
  from 
  Guiana 
  and 
  Venezuela, 
  oval 
  to 
  hemi- 
  

   spherical, 
  with 
  straight 
  or 
  in-or-out 
  curving 
  margins. 
  A 
  characteristic 
  

   type 
  is 
  the 
  shallow 
  flat-bottomed 
  bowl 
  with 
  large 
  circumference 
  and 
  

   incurved 
  margin. 
  Two 
  unique 
  forms 
  may 
  be 
  seen 
  in 
  (a) 
  the 
  rectangu- 
  

   lar 
  vessel 
  with 
  raised 
  rim 
  sections 
  alternating 
  with 
  correspondingly 
  

   depressed 
  rim 
  areas; 
  and 
  (6) 
  the 
  oblong, 
  boat-shaped 
  vessel 
  with 
  its 
  

   depressed 
  lateral 
  margins 
  but 
  elevated 
  end 
  sectors 
  surmounted 
  with 
  

   outward 
  gazing 
  figurine 
  heads. 
  

  

  The 
  unique 
  development 
  of 
  West 
  Indian 
  ceramics 
  is 
  especially 
  

   marked 
  in 
  its 
  decorative 
  designs. 
  Decoration 
  is 
  ordinarily 
  attained 
  

   by 
  incised 
  fines 
  or 
  by 
  applying 
  molded 
  figures 
  in 
  refief. 
  Few 
  of 
  the 
  

   zoomorphic 
  figurine 
  heads, 
  so 
  characteristic 
  of 
  the 
  West 
  Indian 
  

   potter's 
  art, 
  are 
  cut 
  in 
  intaglio. 
  Another 
  characteristic 
  is 
  that 
  the 
  

   figurines 
  are 
  freehand 
  moldings 
  unfike 
  the 
  stamped 
  Mexican 
  ana- 
  

   logues. 
  Ordinarily, 
  the 
  figurine 
  head 
  is 
  luted 
  onto 
  the 
  vessel 
  bilater- 
  

   ally 
  near 
  its 
  margin, 
  but 
  figurines 
  characteristic 
  of 
  the 
  red 
  painted 
  

   ware 
  are 
  incorporated 
  in 
  the 
  body 
  of 
  the 
  vessel. 
  Raised 
  surfaces 
  

   constituting 
  zoomorphic 
  designs 
  and 
  forming 
  an 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  

   body 
  of 
  the 
  bowl, 
  are 
  shaped 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  coils, 
  with 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  

   animal 
  extending 
  from 
  the 
  margin 
  on 
  one 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  vessel 
  and 
  the 
  

   tail 
  projecting 
  on 
  the 
  opposite 
  side. 
  

  

  The 
  knobbed 
  pottery 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  painted 
  red 
  ware 
  and 
  

   apparently 
  has 
  a 
  wide 
  distribution 
  in 
  Porto 
  Rico, 
  Santo 
  Domingo, 
  and 
  

   Jamaica. 
  Describing 
  pottery 
  forms 
  from 
  the 
  Cueva 
  de 
  Las 
  Golon- 
  

   drinas, 
  near 
  Manati, 
  in 
  Porto 
  Rico, 
  Fewkes 
  writes: 
  "One 
  of 
  the 
  

   specimens 
  has 
  two 
  solid 
  knobs 
  on 
  the 
  rim; 
  another 
  is 
  perforated 
  just 
  

   below 
  similar 
  knobs." 
  A 
  similar 
  type 
  of 
  pottery 
  embefiishment 
  

   occurs 
  on 
  boat-shaped 
  funerary 
  vessels 
  from 
  caves 
  near 
  Kingston, 
  

   Jamaica. 
  In 
  the 
  Jamaican 
  forms, 
  three 
  buttons 
  or 
  knobs 
  are 
  in 
  

  

  