TESTS AT TURTLE POINT


Hatt's (1938) illustrations include a Botany Plain straight rim
bowl (Fig. 3), a Botany Painted Plate, a handled vessel, and three
adornos-one each of subtypes 3 and 4, Botany Adorned, and one
not typed in this report. From the photographs of stone tools,
Hatt felt that "a few of the stone objects seem to be 'three-pointers,'
 I would date occupation at these bays as having occurred
during the Magens IIC period.
 Buxton and Trevor in the article on these burials comment on
the Negroid appearance of the skulls but feel that their association
with Indian material dates them as pre-Columbian. Subsequently,
Stewart (1939) after pointing out that "The mere presence of skele-
tons in a sand or shell mound of Indian origin, lacking careful
stratigraphic records, is not certain evidence of primary association
with the accompanying artifacts ." compares the Water Island
skulls with known Negro and Indian skulls and demonstrates them
to be Negro in nature. I, noting the sites seem much too small for
the number of burials found and knowing that Negri burials have
been made in Indian middens in the Virgin Islands, agree with
Stewart that they were intrusive.

 ARTIFACTS FROM ST. JOHN

 Indian sites on the island of St. John are located on the map
accompanying Sleight's article (Fig. 2) where a discussion of the
sites and their attributes will be found. As for St. Thomas, I will
first describe our stratigraphic tests on St. John and then make
brief references to the surface collections from other sites.
 Bullen excavated at Turtle Point and Sleight at Cinnamon Bay,
while Francis Bay was a joint effort. At Coral Bay, Tests I and II
were dug by Bullen and A and B by Steinbach. Work of the survey
was done both separately and collectively.

 Tests at Turtle Point

 Turtle Point, which juts westward from St. John into Durloe
Channel (Fig. 2), is located at the northern end of the Caneel Bay
Plantation. Hatt (1924: 29, Fig. 1) locates his fourth St. John
site here and one of his collections, listed in the catalog of the