ARCHKOLOGICAL OBJECTS 



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Fi«. 1.'>. AniHlet. 



Latimer collection, one string containino- 70, which Professor Mason 

 thus described: 



A string of 70 small chalcedony beads, about the size of peas. They are quite per- 

 fectly rounded and perforated, some of them in two directions. This is the most 

 remarkable sample of aboriginal stone polishing and drilling that has ever come 

 under the observation of tiie writer. It is exceedingly doubtful whether another 

 collection of so many witnesses to savage jjatience and 

 skill has been found anywhere in one specimen. 



According- to Ramon Pane the woman Gua- 

 bonito (g'ood ruler) gave the hero Guagugiana 

 much guanine (gold) and cihe, coltclhl (stones), 

 "that he might carry them tied to his arms; 

 for in those countries the coleeih! are of stone, 

 very like marble, and they wear them aboiit 

 their wrists and necks: and the Guaninis wear 

 them at their ears, making holes in them 

 when they are \\ti\o. and they sound like fine 

 mettle." 



The above-mentioned string of beads is excelled by one collected 

 at Utuado by the author in 1904. The Utuado specimen (plate 

 XXXI, (i) is more than 5 feet long, containing several hundred beads, 

 large and small, a worthy gift from a cacique. It was found in 

 a bowl (plate Lxxvir. a., a'}, evidently sacrificial, and with it were 

 another string, also a fine one, and two pendants, one of .stone, the 

 other of shell. These beads vary in size but are never round like 

 those in the string first described above. Many have lateral perfora- 

 tions, as if for the insertion of feathers or other objects, and in some 

 specimens the perforation is confined to a simple pit. 

 Another specimen (c) is one of several stone objects 

 of cylindrical form, with a raised band midway in its 

 length and perforations at the opposite edges. The 

 raised band in one known specimen is decorated with 

 what reseml)les a human hand. Illustration h repre- 

 sents a brown nonperforated stone of unknown use. 

 There arc two specimens of this form in the collection, 

 one of which came with the Latimer gift. Specimen 

 d is a spherical stone girt by a groove, having a per- 

 foration through an elevation that is pinched up at one 

 pole. A string can be introduced into figure d to show 

 the position of this hole. 

 The object shown from front and side in figures 15 and Iti may pos- 

 sibly be regarded as a pendant, although closeh- related to the frontal 

 amulets later considered. It is made of a white stone, possiblv marl>le, 

 perforated laterally as if for suspension, having a human figui-e cut in 



Fig. 16. Amulet 

 (.side view). 



