CERAMIC TYPOLOGY


gory. This is not really a type, but a convenient analytical designa-
tion, as red-painted sherds from various types of vessels are in-
cluded under this rubric.
Botany Painted Plate-a flat plate form of Botany paste with a
thickened rim painted on lip, inner rim, and inside with red and
white or black-sometimes red and orange-paint to form simple
geometric designs. As shown in Figure 3 (second from bottom),
this is a very wide (about 40 cm.) and rather flat plate with a small
flat base (P1. I, g). Vessel walls are uniformly medium thick (6-8
mm.). Rims have been carefully made by the addition of extra
paste with rounded or flat-rounded lips which, like interior surfaces,
are very well finished. Outer surfaces, which are unpainted, have
not received as careful treatment. Lips have a reasonably sharp in-
ner edge while their outer edge is rounded and tends to extend
slightly beyond outer walls. These are well-fired containers and
"rim strips" are not frequently found seplarted from walls.
 In all of our examples (PIs. III, h; IV, e; V, k; VII, j; XII, j)
the lip area is painted red and the space between the edge of the
lip and the inner wall proper is painted white or black. Red and
white paint occur more frequently than black on inner surfaces.
In one case, the red was applied over white (P1. III, h), in another
over orange (P1. XI, k). Simple geometric designs can be inferred
from available sherds (Pls. IV, e; VII, j; XI, i-j).
Botany Unpainted Plates-this category has been made for sherds
which do not exhibit any paint but which clearly are from plates
as described under the previous type. It may be that these sherds
have lost their paint and so should be included in the previous
type. However, because of the quantities involved, it would appear
that the early Virgin Islanders had both painted and unpainted
plates.
Botany Adorned-vessels of Botany paste, frequently boat-shaped,
with modeled adornos representing heads extending upwards from
rims or rim points. There are at least five subtypes or varieties of
adornos. These will be referred to under the following designations.
 Subtype 1-crude adornos on which the face is indicated merely
by indentations to represent eyes (Pls. III, c; VI, b) or with these
indentations filled by slit ovoid lumps of clay (P1. III, b). Surfaces
are not well smoothed. A similar crude adorno with eyes and