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tion of specimen //, are broken relief decorations of bowls or vase.s. 

 It (/<) has a body and limbs, and is not a mere head, the hands being 

 represented resting on tlie knees. Specimen e is a large fragment of 

 a flat bowl with relief ornamentation on the rim and a head in high 

 relief. This tigure likewise includes arms with pits in the shoulders 

 and in other portions of the bodj'. Illustration ;' represents a clay 

 head obtained by the author in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, 

 Santo Domingo. In /', f/, and g' are represented necks of bottles 

 bearing faces on one side. They are hollow, with an opening at the 

 top. One fine specimen, much more elaborate than the others, has a 

 polished surface and the features of the face are more than ordinarily 

 well made. Several other specimens, figures I'-m, represented in 

 plate i.xxxii. are necks of bottles or flasks adorned with laterally 

 placed heads made in relief, the incised superficial decorations in each 

 occupying the intervals l)etween these heads. Pits at the ends of 

 these incised lines, a constant feature in Antillean incised decorations 

 on potter}-, are shown in </ and </ . 



The two dishes from Santo Domingo shown in plate lxxxiii, are 

 fine specimens of Antillean pottery. Specimen a is more highly con- 

 ventionalized than specimen h; the latter has raised heads on the rim, 

 surmounted liy a projection probably representing feathers. Both 

 these specimens are trencher-shaped and were probably used as platters 

 for food. They resemble the dishes from caves in Jamaica, described 

 and figured by Doctor Duerden and others. 



The aborigines of the Lesser Antilles, like those of Porto Rico and 

 Haiti, were good potters, and fine specimens of their ware are found 

 in St Kitts, Grenada, and Trinidad. The small island of Carriacou, 

 near St Vincent, where there are said to be Carib cemeteries, has 

 jaelded instructive fragments of ceramic ware, some of which are 

 among the finest yet recorded from the West Indies. 



Plate LXXXIII, c-t\ representing potteiy from St Kitts, gives an 

 idea of vases, bowls, and platters from this island. The ware has a 

 red color and a fine superficial polish and is decorated with incised 

 lines tilled with white pigment. As there are no efiigy vases in this 

 collection, it would seem that the makers relied more on painting 

 than on relief figures for ornamentation. The texture, color, and 

 forms of pottery ditier somewhat from the Porto Rican variety, as is 

 natural in art products of diflerent races. 



Pottery from the island of (Irenada is likewise a fine typical variety 

 of red ware, varying in forms, but sometimes decorated with relief 

 heads resembling those found in Porto Rico. It is naturally allied 

 closely to ceramics from Trinidad, specimens of which are figured in 

 plate Lxxxv. 



The Grenada pottery (plate lxxxiv, a-f) is closely related to that of 

 St Vincent, resembling fragments of heads from Carriacou, which are 



