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presented in a realistic manner. This is the only well-defined indi- 

 cation of sex encountered in the pottery of the island. 



OBJECTS FOUND IN THE HANDS OF THE IMAGES. 



Objects found in the hands of the images are few in number. 

 On PI. XCII, Fig. a, is shown a small seated figure with a representa- 

 tion of a bird resting on the left arm. Owing to the indication of 

 the mammary glands here, it is possible that this was intended for a 

 female figure. It is interesting to note also that projecting out over 

 very short legs and extending almost to the feet, is represented an 

 apron-like garment. The second figure of this plate is a small frag- 

 ment of a figure not unlike that just described. A rudely modeled 

 bird is represented as resting on the right arm. 



On PI. XCIII are fragments of figures consisting of three arms 

 and a small detached earthenware vessel. Inasmuch as the vessels 

 here presented are all the same, it is possible to believe that we 

 have present the form usually employed for water on the island. It 

 is to be remarked, however, that no fragments of vessels such as 

 these were found. 



On PI. XCI V, Fig. a^ we have a very interesting fragment of what 

 was probably a very large image. Rudely fashioned hands are 

 represented as extending out in front of the body, bearing on them a 

 small solidly made human image, measuring five inches in length. 

 From the position of the arms of this figure, the small image, which 

 is represented as being carried, must have been pressed up close 

 against the breast. In Figs, b and c are represented two similar frag- 

 ments, in which a human image is being carried. In Fig. b we have 

 the left hand bearing the head of a small image, the body of which 

 has been broken off just below the neck. In Fig. c the treatment is 

 somewhat different. The arms are represented as resting on the legs 

 curved in front of the body. The hands hold a small image which 

 like the others is solid. There is nothing in the treatment of the 

 head-dress in this or the figures just mentioned, or in the treatment 

 of the parts of the body in general, to lead to the belief that the 

 attempt was made, in these carried figures, to represent children. 



On PI. XCV are four small images which from their similarity to 

 those just described, may originally have been placed in the hands of 

 some of the larger figures. In Fig. b of this plate the head is drawn 

 unusually large, the eyes are represented as closed, the hands are 

 only faintly represented, while the feet are not indicated, the region 

 of the feet being perforated, as if for suspension. 



