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GUESDE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES IN WEST INDIES. 827 



the left side faintly resembling a lashing of the two ends of a hoop. 

 This being on the left, the ornamental panel is on the right. The ele- 

 ments of this panel are not nnique. Notice first the beading looped on 

 the right side at the top of the panel, and widening downward to in- 

 close the key ornaments and to pass quite around the boss below. The 

 border on the edge outside and in front of this bead has a human face 

 between two opposing scrolls. The bas-relief ornament inside the bead 

 consists of a double ring in relief, with two ornaments as nearly alike 

 as the varying space would admit. 



Length, 17-1% inches ; thickness of side, l-i% inches. (Compare table 

 in Smithsonian Report, 1876, p. 390.) 



Fig. 199. A collar from San Dom- 

 /" " iugo, probably obtained in Porto 



/ Rico. It does not belong to M. 



f, (xuesde's collection, but the figure 



^"f: . will explain some features omitted in 



V '•" the last. This is also left-shouldered. 



The shoulder projection, the looped 

 ^jt,., -' - -,^ bead, with its herring-bone ridges, 



I 1 inclosing triangular excavations, the 



/- - . \ boss, and the slight ornament on the 



^ shouldered side are all well expressed. 



' ? Although both these are left- shoul- 



dered, there are many right-shoul- 

 dered ones, plainly showing that they 

 ; were to be used in pairs. 



\ Fig. 200. A stone stool or chair of 



the variety mentioned and illustrated 

 in the Smithsonian Report, 1876, p. 

 "• 376. The material of those there de- 



scribed, however, is either sandstone 

 or vood, and the device is some ani- 

 mal form. In M. Guesde's specimen 

 V the material is a dark brown volcanic 

 stone, and the device is the human 

 : , '■': form. Moreover, the position is in- 



•';. ' verted. The man is lying on his 



\ •;. back, with his feet drawn up to form 



I '3--. the legs of the stool. His arms, with- 



V "^t ' out any attempt at accuracy of delin- 



. .eatiou are doubled on his neck. The 



eyes and mouth are like the sa^ae 



|^":~-.x.yv, )^? features in all aboriginal statuary, 



v- -c and beautiful shells were doubtless 



''"•—- v^-rf>/ inserted in them. The ears have 



^''^^--o*^- large openings in which were in- 



