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serted plugs of wood, stone, shell, or feathers. The legs of the 

 chair, just beneath the man's shoulders, are mere i)rojpctions from the 

 stone. The markings in the head and forehead are quite tastefully de- 

 signed. The back does not slope upward as much as in the Latimer 

 specimens. In Dr. Liborio Lerda's "Eldorado " is figured a mummified 

 human body seated on a stone stool in a cist. The figure in this paper 

 and notes of im Thurn (Timehri, i, 271) should be consulted. The im- 

 possibility of using such objects as mealing stones was pointed out by 

 the author of these notes ten years ago^ and im Thurn adds the very 

 ipertinent argument that the ancient West Indians did not grind maize, 

 subsisting mainly on cassava. Dr. Joseph Jones quotes Sheldon as 

 saying, "When a Carib died his body was placed in the grave in an 

 attitude resembling that in which they crouched around the fire or the 

 table when alive, with the elbows on the knees and the palms of the 

 hands against the cheeks." 



Length, 16 inches ; width, 6^ inches ; height of head, 6J inches ; of 

 feet, 2 to 3 inches. 



Figs. 201-202. A low wooden stool from Turk's Island, collected by the 

 late W. M. Gabb. This form is similar to those described in a previous 

 publication, and referred to by the historians of Columbus. The orna- 

 mentation of the countenance of the human head are best shown in Fig, 

 202 a. The labyrinthine design of the seat ornament, the serolls, loz- 

 enges, and chevrons in the head ornaments are most praiseworthy. 

 Length, 46 inches. (202 «, b, c, d.) 



Fig. 202 d. 



Fig. 203. A human figure carved from a single log of Avood. The 

 portions broken away render it impossible to tell how large the image 

 was originally and what position the figure occupied. Especially notice- 



