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second, a less common type, those with handle faces looking outward ; 

 and third (fig. 89c), rarest of all, those with hmnan or animal heads 

 attached to the rim by the back of the head or lying along the rim 



Fig. 87. — Unique vase. Cueva de Roma, Dominican Republic. Size : 8^ 

 inches. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 316445. 



of the bowl with their axis parallel to it. Santo Domingo pottery as a 

 rule is a coarse biscuit ware, its surface waterworn but smooth, ap- 

 parently sometimes formerly covered with a red slip, showing, how- 

 ever, no evidence of a glaze. Although in bolder relief than that made 

 by the prehistoric potters who preceded the Carib in the Lesser 



