ROTH] POTTERY 135 
commonest, show signs, in the large majority of cases, of having been 
broken off from what by analogy were probably bowls, vases, or jars, 
of which some of them constituted the handles.t But it is indeed 
unfortunate that the finders 
of these archeological objects 
should have almost invaria- 
bly discarded the nonorna- 
mental fragments, with the 
result that their true and 
exact relations can be only 
conjectured. The only such 
complete bowl, with but one 
handle, however, that has 
been recovered from the area 
mentioned is represented in 
figures 32 and 33. 
98. Whereas, in the series 
just described, the figurine 
is part of the bowl, vase, or 
jar, there is another group 
distinguishable by the figure 
itself constituting the article which is now known as an effigy 
bowl, ete. The underground burial caves (sec. 836) at Counany 
on the Brazilian-Guiana coast line have supplied us with some 
extremely interesting types of old- time 
pottery articles, certain of which show 
transitional forms between true effigy 
vessels and plain wide-mouth jars (pls. 
27, 28) similar to those obtained, within 
recent years, more to the westward (pl. 
30 A, B). Effigy vessels, fragmentary 
(pl. 32 A) and complete, have also been 
obtained from our own colony. Among 
the latter is a very curious composition 
(pl. 31 A) with an extra head (pl. 31 B) 
modeled on a four-legged base ‘fig. 34). 
Other specimens of this effigy series in- 
ay 
ec ig : 
v es 
Fic. 34.—Base of four-legged effigy vessel shown in pl. 31. 
Vas Ky Min mal 
4 clude certain forms (pl. 32 B, C) which, 
han ie from analogy, I am inclined to regard 
UT rm G, “prrs as children’s rattles (fig. 35). 
— 99. To be included among remain- 
Fi. 35.—Pottery effigy; probably a child’s ; we 
ee ee es ds ing objects of old-time nonfigured pot 
tery are various bowls (pl. 33 C), vessels 
with plain handles (pl. 33 A), portions of griddles (sec. 362), and 
1 There are records of the handles of the burial urns of the Piaroa of the Orinoco being made in the 
shape of crocodiles or serpents (sec. 852). See description of complete specimen by C. Cooksey in Timehri, 
September, 1919. 
