136 ARTS AND CRAFTS OF GUIANA INDIANS [ETH. ANN. 38 
fragments of various kinds that have from time to time been unearthed 
along the Demerara coast line.’ 
In the Georgetown Museum is a so-called “‘ pottery stamper”’ from 
the Grenadines (pl. 33 B). Fewkes has illustrated an identical one 
from Trinidad (JWF, tv, 215). 
2 There is no reason for doubting that with proper search the present limits of discovery would be found 
extending through Surinam into Cayenne. As a matter of fact, no scientific examination has been made 
of the middens and shell mounds already known to exist in British Guiana, and it is to be hoped that officiai 
steps may be taken with a view to their proper preservation and study, and to prevent them being any 
further exploited and damaged by money-grabbing curio-hunters. 
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