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But if this supposition be correct, why, it may be asked, has so 

 much care been given to the ornamentation of the conoid prominence 

 in the third type, which would be buried in the earth ? It may also 

 be pertinent to call attention to the tripointed stones with perfectly 

 smooth surfaces, and particularly to one which is barely half an inch 

 in length. Certainly these are not adapted in size for grinding im- 

 plements, and their superficial polish would also seem to prohibit 

 their use as such. It is evident that at least the small and smooth 

 tripointed stones were not used as mortars, and as their form is prac- 

 tically the same as that of the larger ones, although the latter have a 

 rough surface, it is doubtful if either type was used for grinding. 



A direct statement by Ramon Pane regarding different forms 

 of zemis should have great weight in determining the signifi- 

 cance of these stones. He says that the Haytians had a form of 

 zemi with " three points," evidently referring to some of the tri- 

 pointed stones above mentioned. This writer also states that this 

 form of tripointed objects was believed to make the giiica grow. 



Stone Disks zvith Faces on one Side. — Two specimens of stone 

 disks, bearing faces, are contained in the collection from Porto Rico. 

 Although in their general outline they resemble the so-called masks 

 of other authors, they differ from them in some particulars. It is 

 possible to interpret them as symbolic masks, but while they could not 

 have been worn over the face, they may have been attached to staves 

 and set in mortuary mounds or carried in processions during the 

 rites attending ancestor worship. 



A rough stone, convex on one side and flat on the other, on which 

 is a well-cut face, was purchased from Sr. Zeno Gandia, and a some- 

 what similar stone, a part of the edge of which is broken, was col- 

 lected by the author in the mountains near Utuado, Porto Rico. 



A small head with a part of the body occurs in the Imbert col- 

 lection at Puerto Plata ; it is of finely polished syenitic rock, and 

 the eyes, nose, ears, mouth, and teeth are unusually well made. This 

 object was evidently an idol. 



The Archbishop's collection contains a stone (plate xliii, 3) which, 

 when viewed in profile, is seen to be trilobate, having a median projec- 

 tion flanked on each side by smaller ones. The middle projection has 

 three depressions so arranged as to suggest eyes and mouth. This 

 object is provisionally regarded as a crude idol of the mammiform 

 variety, but it bears no resemblance to the tripointed forms. 



Another stone head in the Imbert collection is spherical in form 

 and has an extension at each pole in which there is a slight depres- 

 sion. The eyes, nose, and mouth are represented in relief ; but the 



