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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I92I 



85 



Antilles, the ceramics of the aborigines of the Greater Antilles are 

 more closely related to the work of the Huaxtecs of Mexico than to 

 that of the aborigines of South America. 



There are in the Abbott collection representatives of all types of 

 those Antillean idols characterized as three-pointed stones: one (figs. 

 90 and 91) with head on the anterior point: another (fig. 92), a 

 second type characterized by a head on the side of the cone; a third 



Fig. 



-Globular bowl of thin ware. Locality, Yaqui del Norte, Dominican 

 Republic. Size: 5^ inches. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 293016. 



type has the cone modified into a head ; and lastly one smooth, undec- 

 orated specimen, referred to a fourth type. The specimen represented 

 in figure 93 belongs to the first type and has on each side of the base 

 of the cone two shallow circular pits ; each of these pits represents a 

 joint of the fore and hind limbs, both of w^hich are cut in relief on the 

 side. Although similar pairs of pits are known on several specimens 

 and accompanying forelegs or arms sometimes appear in relief, no 

 specimen with two pits both having relief representations of limbs 

 has been recorded. 



