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Fig. 117. — On the smooth stone walls of caves and on bowlders along the larger water 

 courses appear deeply incised pictographs anciently carved there by unknown Indian 

 artists. Many of these " petroglyphs " represent, no doubt, spirits who, in Indian lore, 

 were ever present either to be appeased or supplicated. 



Fig. 1 18.— Mollusks formed one of the staples in the food supply of the Ciboney and 

 Arawak Indians of prehistoric Haiti. The same is true for the negroid occupants of 

 present-day Haiti. The illustration is that of a shell mound on Beata Island, unusual in 

 its makeup in that it consists exclusively of shell debris of the large conch S trombus gigas. 



