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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Fig. 139., — Dominican laborers excavating a prehistoric Indian village site 

 in the thorn forest area of Monte Cristi province. Kitchenmiddens and shell 

 heaps in Santo Domingo are never very deep but are frequently extensive. 

 TJiis one extended for more than 300 feet in a south-north direction. 



Fig. 140. — Laborer types in Monte Cristi. The old man second from the 

 right, although living within sight of the ocean, had never been aboard a boat. 

 The tall man in the center shows no trace of Negro blood; likewise the man 

 at the left, whose Semitic cast is marked. 



