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2. Tripointed Stones with Face on one Side of the Conoid Pro) 

 Hon. — In this type (plate xxiv) a face is cut in the interval between 

 the apex of the conoid projection and the anterior point. Posterior 

 limbs arc generally absent, but anterior limbs may be represented, 

 ami in one specimen both are found. 



Comparatively speaking, this is a rare type, only two specimens 

 having been figured by Mason 1 from Porto Rico and one by the 

 present writer from Santo Domingo. 2 In [903 J was fortunately 

 able to add two more specimens of ibis type to our collections; 

 one of these was purchased from Senor Angelis of Catano, the 

 other from Senor Hernandez of Loquillo. The latter is figured in 

 my Preliminary Report 3 of the expedition of 1903, the former in at 

 accompanying illustration (plate kxiv). 



Mason' gives the following description of one of the representa- 

 tives of this type in the Latimer collection: "A curious specimen, 

 made of mottled, flinty limestone. The projecting ends are entirely 

 wanting. The front of the mamma or cone exhibits a grotesque 

 human face. The rear is carved to represent a frog, whose nose 

 forms the apex of the stone, and whose back and hind legs, drawn 

 up, till the remaining surface. The fore-legs pass down the sides of 

 the cheeks and under the lower jaw of the human face in front. This 

 is truly a marvel of aboriginal art, and may be set down as the best 

 specimen of this class in the collection." 5 



The Catano specimen (plate xxiv) is destitute of representation 

 of posterior appendages or anterior legs on the sides of the conoid 

 protuberance. The ears have the form of a figure 6, with shal- 

 low pits as if for the insertion of metal ornaments. The surface 

 (plate xxiv, c) of this specimen is decorated with incised geomet- 

 rical figures, as circles and triangles, resembling those on other 

 Antillean objects. 



Another tripointed stone of the same type was purchased by me in 

 1903 at Loquillo, near the eastern end of Porto Rico. This object 

 has a comparatively rough surface, with anterior extremities, flexed 



1 Op. cit., figs. 42, 43. 



2 On Zemes from Santo Domingo, American Anthropologist, orig. ser., vol. 

 111, 1891. 



3 Preliminary Report on an Archeological Trip to the West Indies, Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 45. Quarterly Issue, vol. 1, 100,3, pi. 

 xliii, 6. 



4 Op. cit., p. 383- 



5 Although the position of the hind legs resembles that of a frog's legs, it 

 is practically the same as in tripointed stones with human and lizard heads. 

 We might equally well say that many of the tripointed stones of the first 

 type represent frogs. 



