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its neck being short and stumpy. The decoi'ation on the surface of 

 this bottle consists of three incised parallel lines, the inner one of 

 which is broken, the interval being occupied by pits. The face has 

 nose, globular ej^es, and ears; the last named are prominent eleva- 

 tions. The upper part of the ears is enlarged or perforated as if for 

 the attachment of a cord, V)y which the bottle formerly may have been 

 carried. The narrow lip of the bottle is separated from the neck by 

 a slight constriction. 



Illustration d in the same plate represents a bottle-shaped object 

 flattened on two opposite sides, the neck being elongated above a head 

 formed in relief, although closely appressed to the body of the bottle. 

 Eyes and mouth are deeply sunken in the face; the nose is low, not 

 prominent; the ears are lateral projections, with the upper and lower 

 lobes indicated by depressions. The incised decorations on the body of 

 this object are strikingly dift'erent from any yet described. On the 

 right side they consist of broken lines separated at their ends by spaces 

 in which are short depressed grooves. Some of these lines end in deeper 

 pits; others are destitute of this character. On the left side this 

 decoration consists of various figures among which an irregular triangle 

 is conspicuous. The base is flat and cii'cular, the surface rough except 

 about the mouth of the bottle. 



Pottery found i;i Santo Domingo often has a bottle or flask shape, 

 as represented in a and a\ plate lxxxi. This object, now in the Imbert 

 collection at Puerto Plata, was obtained on the north side of the island. 

 The main difference between it and the one next preceding consists in 

 the presence in specimen a of a face in relief on one side of the neck. 

 The nose, much enlarged, appears as a sei'ies of folds, separated by 

 depressions, filling the space between the eyes. The body of the 

 flask has a pronounced angular form and a flat circular base. In h is 

 I'epresented a similar flask-shaped vessel of globular form, the eyes 

 and mouth being in relief, and the ears showing on each side. The 

 mouth of this vessel is bottlelike. Specimen c is a bowl, which, like 

 the last, is from the Imbert collection. On opposite sides of the rim 

 arise projections that are decorated on the inner surfaces with parallel 

 incised lines terminating on one end in pits. Side and lower views of 

 a fragment of a bowl in which appear the upturned head and limbs of 

 a grotesque human being are shown in <7 and d' . The specimen from 

 which this was drawn is now in the collection of Seiior Imbert, of 

 Puerto Plata. Santo Domingo. 



A most instructive piece of effigy pottery, possibly a clay idol," was 

 figured by Pinart. who ascribed the ownership to Padre Bellini, of 

 Santo Domingo. It is made of reddish-brown burnt claj', 19 cm. high 



cThe early writers say that the An til leans made their cem/s of clay as well as of atone, wood, metals, 

 and cotton fabrics. 



