GUESDE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES IN WEST INDIES 831 



Figs. 204, 205. This carving represents two individuals seated on a 

 canopied chair. The whole thing is interesting to the highest degree. 

 The chair has a high back ornamented with scrolls and concentric rings. 

 Both individuals have embroidered skull caps, the nearest approach to 

 which are the basket work, close-fitting embroidered hats of the Indians 

 of the Great Interior Basin of the United States. The ears much dis- 

 tended are to be looked for. The most noteworthy feature, however, is 

 the bands of embroidered cotton just above the calves. In his second 

 voyage, cruising among the Caribbee Islands, Columbus came on the 

 10th of November, 1493, to Santa Cruz Island. Here he had a fight 

 with some natives in a dug-out and wounded some of them. " The hair 

 of these savages was long and coarse, their eyes were encircled with 



