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THE ABORIGINES OF POKTO RICO 



[ETU. ANN. 25 



it was obtained in Santo Domingo city. The three tapering- points are 

 of about ecjual size and identical shape, the length and height of the 

 specimen ])eing approximately equal. This object (shown from the side) 

 is made of a hard basaltic rock, finely polished except on the base and 

 in the cavities of the mouth and eyes. The nose is more prominent 

 than in other examples of the present type; the ear is shaped like a 

 ligure 6 (reversed in plate xlv, h). There is an indistinct incised decora- 



FlG. -21. Tliree-poiiitfd stmie o( sei-uiul type. 



tion above the forehead and on the nose; the ferrule surrounding the 

 posterior end is somewhat more prominent than in the two specimens 

 immediately preceding." 



Specimen c of the same plate (xlv) has a rough surface, but indica- 

 tions of more detail than the preceding. The conical projection, tigure 

 22, is very low, rising scarcelj' above the eyebrows. Eyes and mouth 

 face anteriorly. Fore legs are cut on the sides of tlie conical projec- 



« See an article by the author on Zemes from Santo Domingo, in \,\\q American Anthropologist , i\ , 

 10", April, ls')l. 



