﻿FEWKES] PORTO KHAN STONE COLLARS ' ■*> 3 



sometimes cut on tin- part of the elbow stone corresponding to the 

 undecorated panel of the stone collar, h is held that in these elbow 

 stones the face is cut on the undecorated panel instead of being fas 

 tended to it as in the case of collar stones. 



Two examples of these elbow stones with faces may be mentioned 

 to illustrate their significance in this connection; one (pi. x.wii | is 

 figured by Mason, the other by Pinart. Professor Mason is doubt- 

 ful whether the specimen which he illustrates' is a broken collar 

 adapted to a secondary use or belongs to a distinct class. Something 

 could be said in support of the former supposition, but there are 

 similar specimens where resemblance to a broken collar is less ap- 

 parent, ddie elbow stone figured by Pinart 2 has a human face rep- 

 resented on that part of its surface which corresponds to the undec 

 orated panel of a collar. In his description of this object, Pinart 

 writes: " L'ornementation des premiers varie assez, bien que le 

 principal sujet de l'ornementation se trouve toujours a la partie 

 on la collier presente un renflement. Cette ornementation rep- 

 resente dans le cas presente une figure humaine: nous avons recontre 

 egalement la grenouille, la chouette, etc., etc." 



The figures of the above mentioned objects resemble each other so 

 far as the position of the face is concerned, the ears and fillet over 

 the forehead being in both instances well represented. Pinart's spec- 

 imen has the arms, or extensions comparable with that portion of the 

 body of a collar, longer than those figured by Mason, and are beaded 

 at the extremity, a feature not represented in any stone collar. Sim- 

 ilar beading is found on an elbow stone figured by Mason"' in which 

 no face is cut on the panel region, and the same feature occurs in a 

 rude elbow stone which I collected, at Ponce, Porto Rico. In the 

 Mason specimen one arm is perforated as in the elbow stone with a 

 face which Mason describes and figures. This perforation and bead- 

 ing may indicate places for attachment of strings by which the object 

 was suspended or lashed to some other object. 



( )ne of the best of these elbow stones has a complete figure of a 

 human being cut in relief on the panel corresponding to that bearing 

 the face in the Mason and Pinart specimens. This object has no 

 resemblance to a broken collar, although it belongs to the same type 

 as that above mentioned. Like Pinart's specimen, the extremities oi 

 the arms or extensions are beaded, a feature not found in the Mason 

 elbow stone on which a face is represented. This elbow stone has a 

 complete human figure carved in relief on its panel and is figured in 



1 Op. cit., figure 58 (plate xxvu of this paper). 

 - ( )p. cit., pi. 10. figure 3. 

 3 Op. cit., figure 195. 



