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forward, cut on the side of the conoid projection. No posterior limbs 

 are represented. On the chin there are incised parallel lines which 

 may represent ringers, but which also remind one of the so-called 

 beard in some of the Porto Rican pictographs. 1 



3. Tripointed Stones with the Conoid Projection Modified info a 

 Face. — This almost unique type is represented by two. specimens from 

 Santo Domingo, figured in my Preliminary Report for 1902-03," 

 and a third an illustration of which accompanies this article 

 (plate xxv). In addition to the head, the first has rude repre- 

 sentations of legs carved on its sides. In the second specimen, 

 which is without legs, the snout is much elongated and the regions 

 corresponding to the anterior and posterior projections of the first 

 and second types are pointed. In the two described specimens of this 

 type the base, like that of other tripointed stones, is slightly concave. 



In the winter of 1903-04, I purchased, in the Neumann collection, 

 another, the third known specimen, of this rare type of tripointed 

 idols. While this object (plate xxv) resembles somewhat the two 

 already mentioned, it is smaller, better carved, and more elaborately 

 decorated. The material of which it is made is white marble, some- 

 what weather-worn, but not enough to destroy a fine network of 

 incised decoration, which may be especially seen on the fillet over 

 the eyes. Legs are represented as on the other specimens of this 

 type, and the eyes and nostrils are also evident. It is possible 

 that this idol represents a lizard (perhaps an iguana), or some similar 

 animal. 



Tripointed stones of the third type bear a remote likeness to the 

 Porto Rican stone masks in which the conoid projection has been 

 completely replaced by a nose, the anterior and posterior points 

 having been reduced to .chin and forehead. From such masks the 

 transition is easy to oval stone disks with 'faces cut either in relief or 

 in intaglio, but here all resemblance to the tripointed stones becomes 

 lost. 



4. Smooth Tripointed Stones. — This group (plate xxvi, 1, 2) in- 

 cludes those stones of tripointed form which are devoid of face or 

 legs and all superficial decoration. Although this type has the 

 same general form as the others, the specimens belonging to it, as a 

 rule, arc much smaller, one of them being only an inch in length. 

 Some of the aberrant members (plate xxvi, 3) of the type have en- 



1 Prehistoric Porto Rican Pictographs, American Anthropologist (n. s.), 

 vol. 5, No. 3, 1903. 



2 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1903, vol. 45, Quarterly Issue, vol. 1, 

 pi. xi.iv. 3, 4. 



