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Possibly there are altogether a hundred specimens the ownership of 

 which is known. 



Few of these objects have been found in the other West Indian 

 islands ; none has been reported from Cuba and Jamaica, the Ba- 

 hamas have not yet yielded a single specimen, and they are likewise 

 unknown from the coast of North or South America. I have seen 

 stone collars said to have been found in Santo Domingo, and other 

 authors mention their occurrence on that island. In his account of 

 the Guesde collection. Professor Mason 1 figures a collar " from 

 Santo Domingo probably obtained in Porto Rico," and one or two 

 stone collars are reported from this island by others. It is instruc- 

 tive to note, in view of their geographical distribution, that the re- 

 corded localities of known Dominican specimens are from the eastern 

 or Porto Rican end of the island. 



A few of these objects have been recorded as from the Lesser An- 

 tilles, but I have seen none in local collections on St. Kitts, Barbados, 

 Dominica, Grenada, or Trinidad. Pinart, 2 after mentioning several 

 specimens from Porto Rico and Santo Domingo, reports one each 

 from St. Lucia and Dominica. No reference to stone collars from 

 the Lesser Antilles occurs in Mason's catalogue of the Guesde col- 

 lection. 



Stone collars are found in Mexico and Central America, but I find 

 no authoritv for the statement that those of the Porto Rican type 

 occur on the mainland. In his comments on Dr. Stahl's statement 3 

 that these collars have been found in Mexico, Sr. A. Navarette 4 

 writes that none of them is in the National Museum at the City of 

 Mexico, and that they are not mentioned by Chavero, who has de- 

 scribed at length the stone objects of that republic. 5 As Dr. Stahl 

 suggests, the stone collars in the Lesser Antilles were probably car- 

 ried there from Porto Rico by the Caribs, and were not made by the 

 inhabitants of those islands. Xavarette thinks that the same people 

 may also have carried these objects to Mexico, if we accept the state- 

 ments that they occur in that country. 



1 The Guesde Collection of Antiquities in Point e-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe. West 

 Indies: Smithsonian Report, 1884; reprint, 1899, fig. 199, p. 827. 



-'Ac/,- sur les Petroglyphes et Antiquites des Grandes et ['elites Antilles; 

 Paris, 1890, p. t-'. 



/ os Indies Borinque/los, p. 45. 



i Estudios de Arqueologia de Puerto Rico. Resullados de una excursion 

 eientifiea. vi. The newspaper - Iguila, Ponce, 1904. 



5 Many Mexicanists have descrihed stone yokes and stone collars which differ 

 in details from those of Porto Rico. Whether or not there is any relation 

 between the two is yd to he investigated, but the resemhlance in general 

 form indicates some connection. 



