COLLECTIONS FROM SANTO DOMINGO.
The collection from this pueblo consists chiefly of pottery belonging to the white decorated variety with ornamentation in black. But few articles of stone were obtained.
ARTICLES OF STONE.
598-599. 598, (47182); 599, (47185). Stone hatchets with broad annular groove near the blunt end.
ARTICLES OF CLAY.
600, (47154). Medium-sized tinaja, much, ornamented with vines and birds; body with a broad belt of Greek frets with leaf ornaments above and below.
601, (47155). Similar in every respect to the preceding except that the neck has on it only figures of the cactus leaf.
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| Fig. 707. ([47158]) |
602, (47157). Tinaja, medium size; zigzag band around the neck, body ornamented with triangles and curved twigs with pinnate leaves.
603, (47156). Large tinaja with scalloped band around the neck; a broad belt of straight lines and crescents on the body.
604, ([47158]). Large tinaja shown in [Fig. 707].
605, (47159). Water vessel somewhat in the form of a teapot, with short, straight, cylindrical spout, open on the top, and a transverse loop handle. Ornamented with bands of small triangles.
606, (47223). Similar to preceding, except that the handle is not transverse and the figures are chiefly large stars.
607, (47160). A cup-shaped ladle with handle like ordinary teapot; birds and triangles internally, zigzag lines externally.
608, (47161). Bowl; a double-scalloped, ornamental, broad marginal band and a cross ornament internally. No external ornamentation.
609, (47162). Bowl; crenate marginal band and square central figure internally; external surface plain.
610-617 610, (47163); 611, (47164); 612, (47165); 613, (47166); 614, (47167); 615, (47168); 616, (47169); 617, (47170). Small saucer-shaped bowls ornamented on the inside only, chiefly with crenate marginal bands and leaf figures. In one 615, (47168), there is the figure of a deer and of a long-billed bird.
618, (47171). Pitcher with handle and lip usual form, undulate margin, ornamentation as on the neck of (47158), [Fig. 707].
619, (47222). Similar in every respect to 618, (47171), except that the handle is twisted.
620, (47172). Basket-shaped water vessel with handle, three-leaved figures.
621, (47173). Small jar with handle on the side, leaf figures.
622-623. 622, (47174); 623, (47175). Small barrel-shaped jars with diamond figures.
624-626. 624, (47176); 625, (47178); 626, (47179). Double-bellied water bottles, the first with birds and triangles, the second with triangles and diamonds, and the third with flower and leaf ornaments.
627, (47177). Pottery moccasins with leaf and flower ornamentation.
628-629. 628, (47180); 629, (47181). Small bowl-shaped cups with handle; ornamentation chiefly triangles.