130 TlMEHRl. 
is probably due to the fact that the children of those who 
made these deposits, just as do the Indian children of 
the present day, were in the habit of imitating their mo- 
thers when they saw them at their potters' work. Few 
of the other Enmore fragments seem to have belonged to 
vessels closely corresponding in shape to the monoto- 
nously unvaried pots and vessels of the Indians of the pre- 
sent day. Among the fragments evidently belonging to 
vessels differing entirely in shape from any now in use 
among the Indians of Guiana are certain flat and un- 
curved pieces, like portions of tiles (see No. 5). 
These can hardly really be fragments of tiles ; for Indians 
can surely have had no use for such objects. And they 
are too thin to have formed parts of the baking-slabs 
which, as has already been indicated, Indians did, and 
do, use. They are, in fact, exactly like the fragments 
of vessels except that they are uncurved, as, at first 
sight, it seems necessary that a fragment, however small, 
of a vessel must be. But there is a form of vessel which 
occurs "quite frequently in the pottery of the entire At- 
lantic Coast" (of North America), writes Abbot, in his 
" Primitive Industry," (p. 176, ed. 1881), in which a round 
bowl or " belly" is surmounted, above where it contracts 
to form a neck, by a square top. Judging from frag- 
ments in my possession, it is almost certain that the 
Caribs at Enmore possessed at least a few vessels of this 
peculiar square-topped form. Another form of vessel 
evidently in use by the people of the Enmore island, but 
entirely unrepresented by anything now used by the 
Indians, was apparently mug-shaped (see No. 6). At this 
moment I cannot recall instances ol the occurrence of 
vessels of this form from any other part of America. Yet 
