The pieces of carib pottery that I found in Sandy Bay. The middle piece looks like a monkey head. It seems like it must have had something like a handle that went from it's nose to its forehead.

"Curse of the Monkey Head" 03/09/2003 Yesterday I went up to Sandy Bay to search for Carib pottery with Kevin. The village's old primary school property has shards of old pottery lying everywhere. Kevin and I decided to collect as much of it as we can because during the last tropical storm, some houses just down the hillside went into the sea. The next big storm will likely take the old school, pottery and all. The locals were wondering why we would spend all day in the hot sun collecting "stones". We found some pretty good pieces. I bet that there are some impressive artifacts hiding under the hillside. I can't imagine what has already been washed away. The best piece that I found resembles a monkey head. Long ago there were monkeys on the island, but they were hunted out. I also found all different sizes and shapes of pottery. Kevin found some pieces with interesting patterns in them. I did feel like sort of a plunderer even though I was just picking up "stones". Kevin plans on framing the pieces he found and giving them back to his community before he leaves. I'll probably donate mine to the collection as I would feel bad keeping them. Hopefully they will be well taken care of. The last week I have been teaching a course for the teachers at the primary school. They are doing fairly well, but the twenty-two of them are a real handful. I do have an assistant, Nigel, who has been assigned to me through a youth program. He is kind of like an intern. As of yet, he doesn't have very much experience with computers. Hopefully I'll be able to teach him some stuff. He seems to be much more interested in bothering girls than anything else, so it makes it a little difficult.