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Fig. 159. 



Fig. 160. This object is 

 entirely uuique, and indeed 

 outlandish to the Antilles. 

 It is admirable in workman- 

 ship and has been preserved 

 without a scratch. The ma- 

 terial is mottled green and 

 brown. It would not be dif- 

 ficult to guess, granting this 

 to be genuine, that the pro- 

 cess of stone carving went 

 ■, on after 1493, the year in 

 which Columbus discovered 

 Guadeloupe, and that some 

 ./ ingenious lapidary had un- 

 dertaken to imitate a hook 

 in the tackle. There is noth- 

 ing improbable in this, for 

 the Haida slate carvers, to- 

 day, imitate steamers and other inventions of the whites in making 

 their curious pipes. 

 Height, 5-1^0- inches. 



Fig. IGl. A rough mortar in the form of a Galifornia soapstone olla. 

 Very little art has sufficed to bring this specimen to its present form. 

 This is the only regular stone mortar as yet reported from the Antilles. 

 Height, 2-1% inches ; diameter, 5 inches. 



Fig. 16U 



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