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The additions made to the Heye Museum by Mr. De Booy are 

 very important, as they belong to a few imrecorded types. The 

 number of whole pieces from Santo Domingo in the Heye Museum is 

 greater than in any other West Indian collection. Many have a 

 great value. Ijecause they were found in caves, the floors of which 

 are now submerged. 



One of the most unique forms of Porto Kican potterj' yet unde- 

 scribed is a bowl in the Museum fiir Volkerkunde, in Berlin, said to 

 have been found in one of the caves on the left side of the road from 

 Arecibo to Utuado. This bowl has a plain surface without relief 

 decorations, its upper zone having two encircling incised grooves 

 inclosing incised figures, placed horizontally and vertically, as shown 

 in figure 63. 



In figure ^4, plate 119, from a specimen in the Heye collection, we 

 have a very elaborate neck, to which is added heads in relief, all 

 that remains of a large vase, the body of which has been lost. Its 

 style is Santo Domingan rather than Porto Rican. The well- 

 preserved specimens of an exceptional type of pottery from pre- 

 historic Porto Rico figured by Dr. Haeberlin should be mentioned. 

 One of these specimens is particularly instructive as having a raised 

 base, which feature, although known for many yeai-s "" from the 

 Lesser Antilles, has not previously been recorded from Porto Rico, 

 the bowls and vases hitherto described from that island having a 

 rounded or flattened base. 



CUBA 



The island of Cuba, the largest in the Greater Antilles, has up to 

 a few years since yielded a smaller number of archeological remains 

 than Porto Rico, Jamaica, or Haiti. This is due to want of explora- 

 tion, as shown by the large collections made by Mr. M. R. Harrington, 

 of the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation), who has 

 made extensive collections in the island since 1914 and is preparing a 

 memoir on this subject. 



The eastern end of Cuba shows evidences of a higher culture than 

 the western, as if affected more by influences from Haiti and Porto 

 Rico. This is especially seen in pottery obtained from caves of the 

 eastern end. Apparently the western extremity, toward Yucatan, 

 which lies nearer to the continent than any of the Greater Antilles, 

 was inhabited by a race of low comparative culture who spoke a 

 different language from the inhabitants of the eastern extremity. 



<» One of these bowls with basal ring from Trinidad is figured in Aborigines of Poito 

 Uice, Twenty-fifth Ann. Kept., Bur. Amer. Ethn., pi. i.xxxv. 



