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THE ABORIGINES OF PORTO KICO 



Pestle from Santo 

 Domingo. 



Tlie wings are cro.ssed by a number of incised parallel lines. The lens 

 is well developed but there is no indication of a ferrule. The leos are 

 in low relief on the side just below the wings, the 

 feet l)eing- lost in the enlargement which forms 

 the V>ase. The tail, short and stumpy, is crossed 

 bv lines indicating feathers. Pestles with bird- 

 shaped handles, the rarest forms known to the 

 author, are conlined to Santo Domingo, never 

 occurring in Porto Rico. 



Specimen /, from St Vincent, has a head at one 

 end and a slight enlargement at the other, but no 

 lens-shajied extremity. The eyes and mouth are 

 ol)scure. Specimen I' is a rude and apparently 

 unfinished idol which has been used as a pestle or 

 a grinding stone. The object tigured as / is a 

 simple pestle, with an en- 

 largement at one end form- 

 ing the head, in which are 



pits for eyes, l)ut no representation of nose or 



mouth. 



A remarkable stone object (figure 11) found 



in Santo Domingo by Sefior Rodriguez be- 

 longs to the same type as the last. It is im- 

 portant as showing the general likeness of 



stone idols of this form in the two islands of 



Porto Rico and Santo Domingo. Another 



specimen (figure VI) from the latter island is 



somewhat similar. 



The accompanying cut (figure 13) represents 



a bird image made of diorite, from collection 



purchased from Sefior Neumann, of Ponce. 



The head, wings, body, and eyes are rudely 



represented. The surface of this object is 



smoothly polished, and the head, wings, and 



legs have the general appearance of these organs 



in the preceding specimens. 



Similar to the last is another l)ird idol (figure 



11) of the Rodriguez collection from the island 



of Santo Domingo. This specimen has not only 



the wings, eyes, and beak of a bird, but also 



raised imitations of the legs, and stands on a 



flaring base or lens, girt by a ferrule. The eyes are situated on the 



sid(! of the head. 



Plate XXVII, a to /, represents various forms of pestles in the 



VI. Pestle from Santo 

 Domingo. 



