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sion in the ridge above the ncse. There are likewise pits at the proxi- 

 mal ends of the thighs. The leg.s are retracted, the five toes being 

 separated by parallel incisions. The rough broken ends of both these 

 specimens are considerably worn, as if the objects had been used as 

 pestles or pounding implements. The incised decoration in these two 

 objects, as in several others, is brought out in the illustration 1)3' the 

 use of chalk. 



It is not wholly evident that these two ol)jects once belonged together 

 or formed head and legs of a single object, but the tinish of both, no 

 less than the character of the stone of which thev are made, su^jports 

 that conclusion. 



Professor Mason thus writes of these two fragments: 



17017. The head of a inammiform stone, of white marble. The headband is orna- 

 mented with chevrons and three cup cuttings. This was undoubtedly a very beautiful 

 implement. The ateence of <lup!icates in such a large collection is somewhat strik- 

 ing, and yet testifies to the richness of fancy in the artists. This figure, however, is 

 almost identii'al in material, physiognomy, and the shape and ornamentation of the 

 headband with the head of number 17003. (Plate xxxvii, c. ) 



17018. The foot of a marble mammiform stone. The feet are finely exjjressed; 

 indeed they are the best looking pair of feet in the whole lot. The thighs are orna- 

 mente<l with chevrons and cup cuttings. This may have been the foot of the object 

 to which the foregoing number was the head, or more probably to the broken speci- 

 men described as No. 17003. If not, it is a relic of a very finely wrought implement. 



Specimen c, plate xxxaiii, is a roughly made three-pointed stone of 

 the first type, showing a long neck and an ob.scurely indicated mouth 

 and frontal ridge, the legs being slightly rai.sed above the surface. 

 This specimen has the general appearance of an unfinished object or of 

 one whose surface is considerably waterworn. Specimens d and c of 

 the same plate are both A'eiT much waterworn, the second showing 

 breccia-like fragments left in relief by the wearing away of a softer 

 matrix. 



Plate XXXIX, (/ to <i", shows three views of a three-pointed stone idol, 

 the onl}' one in the collection in our National Museum with a depres- 

 sion at the apex of the conical projection. 



The head has a mouth and a pointed snout like a lizard's, but no nose, 

 the place of the latter being occupied by a rounded protuberance with 

 pits, resembling nostrils, on each side. There are no indications of 

 ears, as in almost all other stones representing human heads, and the 

 frontal ridge is here replaced by an ele\ation, the top of the head. 

 This elevation, however, like the frontal ridge, is ornamented with 

 incised lines and has a median pit surrounded by an incised ring. The 

 posterior apjiendages are very obscurely indicated. 



Professor Mason gives the following description of the stone figured 

 as 7} in this plate: 



A rough specimen made of volcanic stone. The face an<l feet are much flattened 

 out, and the anterior and posterior furrow are broad and shallow. The left side is 



