GUESDE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES IN WEST INDIES. 819 



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Fig. 185.— 2. 



Fig. 186. A spool-shaped object, highly polished. The excavation 

 does not pierce the stone. As the natives of this area distended their 

 ears to a great extent, we may be allowed to call this an ear-plug. 



Height, 1^ inches. 





IX. ORNAMENTAL FORMS. 



In this group have been brought 

 together those specimens in which 

 ornament is of more importance than 

 use. They are not all made of stone, 

 and a few of them are not in M. 

 Guesde's collection. The last named 

 have come into the National Museum 

 since the description of the Latimer 

 collection in 1876. (Smithsonian Ee- 

 port, 1876, p. 372-393.) It is not to 

 be supposed that the makers designed 

 any such division of their artefacts. 



Fig. 187, 1 and 2. A beautifully polished object, and symmetrically 

 formed in face aud profile, the outlines of the edge view making a very 

 pleasant combination. 



Length, 3^^ inches. 



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