ILLUSTRATIONS 



Plate I. Skulls from Santo Domingo, showing artificially flattened fore- 

 heads (Imbert collection). 

 II. Houses in 2>rocess of construction, Luquillo: 

 a, Framework without covering. 

 h. With straw on sides; roof not covered. 



c, With sides covered; roof partially thatched, showing 

 method of fastening thatch. 



d, e, Completed Porto Rican houses, with thatched roof and 

 sides. 



/, Typical street in Porto Rican village, .showing poorer 

 houses. 



III. Porto Rican house.s with thatched roofs, and sides covered witii 



palmdeaf sheaths, or yaguas. 



IV. Porto Rican houses: 



a, a', Fishermen's houses on the dunes at Arecibo. 



6, With walls of split palm trunks, roofs of thatch, near 



Barceloneta. 

 c, d, e. Of the Gibaros in the mountain districts. 

 v. Porto Rican house inhabited by negroes. 

 VI. Negro house in Porto Rico, with walls constructed of palm 



leaves and roof thatched. 

 VII. Carib houses at Arima, Trinidad, British West Indies. 

 VIII. Carib house at St Vincent, British West Indies, with group 

 of Carib making baskets. 

 IX. Carib war dance (Picard). 

 X. Ceremonial dance of the Haitians to the Earth Goddess 



( Picard) . 

 XL Petaloid stone implements and chisels. 

 XII. Petaloid stone implements, Porto Rico. 



XIII. Stone axes: 



(I, h, c, d, Porto Rico. 



«, /, g, h, Santo Domingo (Archliishop JMerifio collection). 



XIV. Monolithic implements, Santo Domingo (Archbishop Merino 



collection) . 

 XV. Ceremonial stone hatchets: 



(I, Santo Domingo (Archbishop Merino collection). 



h, Cuba (Santiago Museum). 

 XVI. Problematical stone objects: - 



n, Ciales, Porto Rico. 



h, c, d, Porto Rico (Latimer collection). 

 XVII. Stone axes fi-om St Vincent, British West Indies. 



