ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN


 Not included in Table 3 is a modeled human head handle (P1.
 XVI, b) which I do not feel fits the category of Botany Adorned
 for stylistic reasons. While made of a Botany-like paste and having
 a typical unpainted rough Botany-like surface, the modeling is
 much more naturalistic than anything of this nature I have seen
 illustrated for the Greater Antilles or the Virgin Islands except for
 a similar specimen illustrated by Hatt (1924: Fig. 4, i) for Magens
 Bay. In both instances, shoulders are present and the figure appears
 as if lying on its back so that the bowl proper is formed by the
 chest and abdominal regions.
 Details are not as well delineated on the Magiins Bay example
 as on the one from Cinnamon Bay. With its raised eyebrows,
 pierced ear lobes, and backward sloping face it strongly resembles
 modeled human-head handles I have seen on vessels from the
 Lesser Antilles to the south. These specimens differ, however, in
 being rather flat-faced while ours has mid-facial prognathism. The
 specimen in question was found in the highest zone at Cinnamon
 Bay. I feel it represents extremely late influences, possibly trade,
 from the south.

 Tests at Francis Bay

 We found the midden at Francis Bay (Fig. 2) shallow but rather
 rich in pottery. Hatt also made a collection at this site.
 Our three tests showed we were dealing with a slope midden
which varied considerably in thickness and which was buried by
a varying overburden of clayey dirt and rocks. In Test I the
midden ended on sterile clay at a depth of 15 cm. In Test II, 2 by
3 meters in size, the base of the deposit was met at a depth of 30
cm. Here there was only a little overburden, about 7 cm., but 4
meters further up the slope the overburden measured 30 cm. In
Test III, 2 by 2 meters, the overburden was 10 to 13 cm. thick and
the midden, which was in part 45 cm. in thickness, rested on hard
clay at a total depth of 55 cm. Thus we were able to get three 15
cm. levels in Test III. It also contained an ash pit, 45 cm, in di-
ameter and 12.5 cm. vertically.
 Specimens from Francis Bay are illustrated in Plates XI-XII.
The vertical distribution of pottery is presented in Table 4 where