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those from both districts a human face is carved on the stomach of the 

 human figure represented by the whole stoue. According to Friar 

 Eoinan, (quoted iu Irviug's Columbus, I, 390,) each cacique had a temple 

 or house apart where au image of his Zemi, or tutelary deity, carved of 

 wood or stoue, or shaped of clay or cotton, generally in some monstrous 

 form, was preserved. 



17125. An irregular slab, having a rude face iu relief on one side. 

 Seven parallel lines extend from the chin downward, as if to imitate a 

 beard ; 16.1 by 7.5 inches. 



17126. A fish-shaped bowlder, 2S.5 inches long. On the narrow end 

 is a sitting human figure, having the hands clasped under the chin and 

 the feet doubled up with the soles together. On the stomach is a circle, 

 seeming to have been desigued to represent a human face. 



17127. A boot shaped slab, on the broad end of which is a rude human 

 face, crowned with a chevroned baud across the forehead. 



17128. An irregular kite shaped slab, bearing on one side a human 

 face. On the right side of the face are two hieroglyphic marks, the one 

 in the shape of a heart, and the other resembling a cleaver with two 

 small furrows running from the edge. Now and then a heart-shaped 

 stone implement turns up in our collection; but we are not to suppose 

 that the American aborigines used this to symbolize the human heart 

 itself or the domain of Cupid. 



17129. A rude slab of yellow stone, 28.5 by 13 to 10 by 6 inches. On 

 the flat lace is a humau figure very roughly furrowed out, bearing on 

 its stomach an inverted face. Ou the top of the slab a circle is furrowed 

 out. The carviug on this and the foregoing slabs was apparently done 

 by pecking out the depressions with stone chisels, leaving the eyebrows, 

 nose, and lips in intaglio. 



17132. An ingenious figure of a human female head and breasts in 

 coral ; the natural spheroidal swellings on the material forming the head 

 and breasts. 



17142. A stalactite bearing a rude carviug of a human face. 



17150. A fragment of a pillar-stone, the face of a man deeply carved 

 in its surface. 



17281. A rude pillar-stone, 41 inches in height, the upper part being 

 a kneeling figure with its face upturned, its huge mouth open, and its 

 hands clasped under the chin. Two circles are carved on the back. 



MAMMIFORM SI ONES. 



These strange and beautiful objects present, in more than one-half of 

 the specimens, the image of a human figure lying on the stomach, 

 with the face more or less upturned, the mouth open, and the coun- 

 tenance wearing a tortured look. The other end of the stone rep- 

 resents the lower extremities of the body, so doubled up as to expose 

 the soles of the feet against the rump. On the back of the pros- 

 trate form is a conoid prominence, beautifully rounded up, straight 



