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lias a globular form with orifice wide open and lugs in relief in the 

 decorated zone. These vertical handles are perforated, but as the 

 openings are too small for insertion of the fingers it would seem that 

 the bowl was once suspended by strings in these lugs. The decora- 

 tion is confined to the upper half and consists of alternating recti- 

 linear parallel lines, four of which occur in the horizontal and three 

 in the vertical areas. The lip opening is slightly bent outward. 



A small bowl (pi. 119, B) in the Heye collection is decorated with 

 two heads, placed opposite each other, in relief, recalling some of 

 those from the Erin Bay midden in Trinidad, British West Indies. 

 It has a convex base, and the opening is only slightly less than the 

 diameter of the bowl. The surface decoration consists of parallel 

 grooves, whose extremities are separated by the heads in relief or 

 lines at right angles to the same. There are several pits near the 

 ends of the rectilinear grooves — a feature characteristic of jjottery 

 from Santo Domingo and Porto Rico. The heads are attached in 

 high relief on the two opposite sides of the bowl, the rim flares out- 

 ward, extending over a deep groove or neck that sejjarates two areas 

 of incised lines that form the main decoration of the outer surface of 

 the vessel. The eyes and eai's are represented by circular rings in 

 low relief. The back of the head corresponds in curvature with the 

 inner surface of the bowl. 



The bowl shown in plate 119, C. from the Heye collection from 

 Santo Domingo, has sloping sides, with a flat base. The exterior 

 bends inward to form an undecorated lip, which also serves as the 

 place of attachment of two heads, placed opposite each other, pro- 

 jecting slightly outward and upward from the margin of the opening 

 and forming lugs or handles. The eyes and other organs of the head 

 take the form of dumb-bell appendages to the rim and are situated 

 one on each side of the handle. 



In an account of his trip to Santo Domingo Mr. De Booy added 

 several instructive forms of pottery to those already known from 

 that island, thus increasing our knowledge of the ceramics of 

 the Porto Rico-Santo Domingo area. Several of these water jars 

 have nozzles ornamented with human faces and other organs as 

 elsewhere figured and described.** The nozzles of these specimens 

 resemble those on vases in the United States National Museum pur- 

 chased from Archbishop Merino and figured in my Aborigines of 

 Porto Rico. 



The suggestion that these flask-shaped necks contained charcoal 

 and were used for filtering water is unsatisfactory, but they may have 

 been used in filtering the fermented juice from some plant, ius the 

 yuca, a theory that can hardly be looked upon as more than a 

 suggestion. 



™ .Aborigines of Porto Rico, Twpnty-nfth .\nn. Kept. Bur. Ampr. Ethn., pi. Ixxx, n. a', a". 



