Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies

nearly a Cuban.I ) Then too, in a more modified form, the shape
occurs in Jamaica, where some bowls have inner rims.2) Heads
"with big hollow eyes" are also general as lugs in the findingplace
in the Cibao Mts. That characteristic HATT considers shows
the influence of the stone sculptnre, and he illustrates this hypothesis
with a broken stone head from this tract.3) Large hemispherical
eye-sockets also occur in the ceramics of southeastern
Santo Domingo.4)
In KRIEGER III, Pl. 46: 3-4 and Pl. 48: 2 three whole vessels
from Monte Cristi Province are introduced. Of these Pl.
46: 4 and 48: 2 are open with plain rims, of which that on the
former slants outward.5) Pl. 46: 3 is over-arched and has two
moulded heads looking towards the exterior as well as a decoration
of crawling serpents, as in Pl. 47: I, San Juan sites To judge
from this material, there are no especial peculiarities in the pottery
of the Monte Cristi Province.
Far richer is KRIEGER'S material of whole vessels from southeastern
Santo Domingo, and especially from the cemetery at
Andres. I pass by the bottle-types, as I have already discussed
them. Shallow, open bowls occur in many types, more or less
complicated. Some of the forms seem to predominate in the
Tainan ceramics to a considerable degree. Simple plain dishes,
KRIEGER III, pl. 6: I and 2, and two ones on pI. 7, cemetery at
Andres, are also found at Higuamo,6) in Santo Domingo They
occur also in Tainan culture at Magens Bay, St. Thomas. 7 ) Pl.
5I: I, Province of Santo Domingo, is a reconstructed plain bowl
of a type rather general in the "nothern part of the island."8)
Its elliptical pot-handles are certainly strengthened with a decorative
moulding, hut at any rate they had reached the genuine
pothandle stage. Moreover, as in Puerto Rico, "loop handles" for
') HARRIXGTON. PI. XLIII, "from a cave near Monte Cristo. Baracoa."
2) DUERDEX, PI. 5, Fig. 3.
3) HATT, Fig. 9.
4) DE Booy, Santo Domingo Kitchen ,11iddens. PI. X, c. lower Higuamo.
5) Camp. KHTEGER III, Pl. 96. 6, Anrlres. DE Bom:. Pl. V, a and b, Higuamo,
FF,WKES I, PI. LXXX, banG b', Santo Domingo.
6) DE Rooy, Santo Domingo Kitchen Midden, Figs. 5 a, also PI. VIII, c.
7) HATT, Arch. Virgo Is7., Fig. 2.
8) KRIEGER III, p. r63.