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Archeology of the Virgin islands (1919)

Booy, Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de, 1882-1919 · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 93

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PAINTED POTTERY 75 is of well-fired, yellow clay, and the ware is a quarter of an inch thick. The in- cised ornamentation is crude. A line en- circles the rim, and from this other in- cised lines extend downward. The speci- … - Vessel with red-painted decoration on outside, FiG. 19.- from Salt river, St Croix. men was found in the Salt River deposits of St Croix. A large proportion of the pottery found on the Virgin Islands is provided with painted decoration. With few excep- tions, vessels so ornamented consist of AND…

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