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another variation, in the Enmore pottery, from the modern 
forms of Indian vessels, is to be noted in the fact that 
they often, though certainly not always, had thick- 
ened bottoms (see No. 3), whereas in the mod- 
ern Indian pottery the bottom is either of the same 
thickness as the sides, or, if it is occasionally somewhat 
thicker, it passes not abruptly, but tapers down only 
gradually, to the greater thinness of the sides. Even at 
Enmore the thickened bottom is, however, more common 
in the ( burial jars' than in the finer pottery. In short, 
in shape and make the Enmore pottery differs from that 
of the modern Indians of Guiana, but differs slightly less 
from the pottery of the • True Caribs' of Guiana and the 
allied tribes than it does from the pottery of the other, 
or, as I have elsewhere called them,* the native tribes of 
Guiana. 
But a yet greater peculiarity of the Enmore pottery, 
as occurring in Guiana, lies in its ornamentation. The 
adornment of primitive pottery may be said to be 
achieved by three methods : (i) by the painting, or more 
often the staining, of patterns, (2) by the production o£ 
patterns by means of either raised or incised lines, dots 
or other marks, and (3), most rarely, by luting on 
figures in high reiief.t The Indians of the Guianas of 
the present day very rarely ornament their vessels 
* " Among the Indians of British Guiana" p. 171. 
f It may not be out of place here to note, by the way, that the 
evolutionary history of pottery is probably as follows ; first the pot is 
left entirely plain and unadorned ; next, corresponding with a slightly 
higher stage of civilization, it is stained or painted ; next it is orna- 
mented by raised or incised patterns ; and, lastly, by the luting on of 
highly raised figures, each of these stages in the potter's art correspond- 
ing with a higher stage in general civilization, 
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