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N-23: BARAMBINA HILL 
At the summit of Barambina Hill (figs. 4, 22) near the house of 
Jose Torres a few sherds were found in an area that was formerly a 
garden but had reverted to grass and brush. The surface was paved 
with small iron concretions, and only 25 sherds were collected in the 
limited time available at the site. Torres had found two modeled 
animal heads when digging a pond down the slope where a spring 
furnished his water supply. A similar source must have been used by 
the aboriginal occupants, for otherwise the nearest water is at the 
base of the hill near the headwaters of some of the small tributaries 
that drain into Kumaka Creek. Owing to the surface conditions the 
limits of the site could not be determined. The sherd sample includes 
typical Mabaruma Phase pottery types, but the collection is too small 
to include in the seriated sequence for the Phase. 
When Osgood visited this area in 1944 and excavated Barambina 
shell midden, he mentions receiving from Jose Torres some decorated 
sherds that he had found near his house (Osgood, 1946, p. 50). Al- 
though no other details are given there is no doubt that these are 
Mabaruma Phase sherds from N-23. 
DATA FROM OTHER INVESTIGATIONS 
Although the Northwest District has been the object of greater 
archeological interest than any other part of British Guiana, the ac- 
counts suffer from vagueness and subjectivity. In some cases, sites 
can be identified with those we visited, and this documentation is given 
under the site descriptions. Although there is a slight danger of con- 
fusion with the Koriabo Phase, the rest of the sites that produced 
“pottery heads” can probably also be assigned to the Mabaruma 
Phase. Four of these have been recorded by Verrill: 
Waunina (Wanaina) Hill.—This hill is the west end of the chain 
in which Hosororo Hillis located. It is separated by a strip of swamp 
from the left bank of the Koriabo River. The site produced “very 
fine” stone implements, pottery adornos, and highly decorated sherds 
(Verrill, 1918 a, p. 14; Osgood, 1946, Site No. 9, p. 61). 
Hanaida Hill—Wanaida Hill is an isolated rise in the swamp some 
distance inward from the right bank of the Aruka River (Osgood, 
1946, fig. 7). The lateritic surface produced a few fragments of pot- 
tery heads, sherds and several stone implements (Verrill, 1918 a, p. 17; 
Osgood, 1946, Site No. 10, p. 61). 
Anabist Hills—On the red, lateritic hills on the Anabisi River, a 
tributary of the Kaituma River, there is a site from which fragments 
of decorated pottery, modeled heads, and stone implements were re- 
covered (Verrill, 1918 a, p. 17; Osgood, 1946, Site No. 21, p. 61). 
