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except, and the exception is chiefly by the Caribs, by 
painting or staining them ; very occasionally, however, a 
projecting rib is seen at the base of the neck of a modern 
water-vessel (goglet), and this too is the work of Caribs ; 
and, again, only since I was at Enmore, have I seen for 
the first time a similar vessel, also made by a Carib, 
ornamented with a series of indentations round its mouth, 
made by pressure with the tip of the finger on the un- 
baked clay. There is, therefore, little attempt made by 
the modern Indians of Guiana to ornament their pottery ; 
but such attempt as is made, is made chiefly, if not 
solely, by the Caribs of the colony. 
On the Enmore pottery there is no trace of ornamenta- 
tion by painting or staining ; this may, however, be due to 
the fact that long burial in the earth has obliterated all 
traces of the colouring matters, usually of a not very 
adhesive kind, so applied. But a large number of the 
fragments are ornamented, with very unusual elaboration, 
with both raised and indented patterns. I am almost 
inclined to think that all the vessels were perhaps so 
ornamented, and that the numerous unadorned fragments 
found are all from the lower parts of vessels the rims of 
which — for the ornamentation in most American, per- 
haps in most primitive, pottery is, I believe, confined to 
the upper parts or rims — were ornamented. This orna- 
mentation by raised or incised patterns is fairly common 
throughout America, especially northward, among the 
tribes of middle civilization. Very excellent illustrations of 
it may be seen in plates 15 & 16 of the 15th volume of 
the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society" 
(1880), where the late Professor HALDEMAN, to whose 
daughter, Madame Figyelmesey, I am greatly indebted 
