38 U THE LATIMER COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES. 



and furrow. The marks will be better understood by the accompanying 

 figures 51, 53, 55, 59. The material of which they are all made is a 

 volcanic stone of different color and texture. 



1. BiyMsliouldered massive collars. 



17104. The shoulder resembles closely a knot of a tree, and about six 

 inches below there is another swelling as though the knot entering above 

 came out at this point. There is no transverse ridge beneath the shoul- 

 der. The right panel is a plain moon-shaped chamfer pecked on the 

 stone. The left panel is a gourd-shaped space inclosed in a bead-like 

 ridge, and has its wide end extending quite around the bottom of the 

 collar to the chamfer so as to form a quasi-boss. 



17107. The shoulder of this one is inverted bell-shaped. The shoulder 

 ridge is a transverse swelling. The right panel is a parallel-sided cham- 

 fer. The left panel is gourd shaped and ornamented with herring-bone 

 furrows. The bottom of the collar is very much enlarged by the lower 

 margin of this gourd-shaped panel. (Fig. 51.) 



17108. The shoulder is bell-shaped, and beneath it is a narrow trans- 

 verse ridge uniting at its extremities with the marginal ridges, which 

 extend quite around the upper half of the collar. The right panel is an 

 oval chamfer. The left panel is gourd-shaped, and is ornamented with 

 lozenges, chevrons, and triangles, prettily designed to fill up the space. 

 (Fig. 52.) This is an exquisite specimen of design and execution, and 

 as well as many others already examined, and to be examined, indicates 

 marked progress in the division of labor. 



17109. The shoulder is a mere swelling, without any definite outline, 

 and the shoulder ridge is wanting altogether. The right panel is a slight 

 chamfer, the left panel a deep-furrowed triple chevron. A rather plain 



object. 



2. Left-shouldered massive collars. 



17105. The shoulder of this collar is a mere swelling out, as it were, 

 of the stone. The shoulder-ridge is likewise a transverse elevation 

 beneath the shoulder. The left panel is a parallel-sided chamfer extend- 

 ing from this transverse swelling quite to the bottom of the collar, where 

 it is bounded by a transverse ridge or quasi-boss. The right panel 

 is the gourd-shaped pattern ornamented by an oblong spiral ridge. 

 The gourd pattern in* this and other massive collars reappears in the 

 slender variety, where it is represented by a somewhat quadrilateral 

 panel having a looped ridge extending beyond the anterior margin. 



SLENDER OBLIQUE-OVATE COLLARS. 



The slender collars, which compose the greater part of the set, are 

 more highly elaborated in every respect than the others, and differ from 

 them so much in weight and finish as to suggest a difference or function. 

 (Figs. 53, 55, 59.) Where so little is known concerning them, however, 

 this is more than we can affirm. 



