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central pit, surrounded by trianoles and parallel curved lines. The 

 break in the encircling line shown just below this pit is significant and 

 characteristic of Antillean ornamentation. The posterior Ijand extends 

 from one edge of the base to the opposite side below the decorated area, 

 separating that area from the posterior point. The base is flat, or 

 slightly curved, and roughly pecked. The incised ornamentation of 

 the region between the apex of the conoid pi'ojection and the posterior 

 band is exceptional. 



If stones of the second type were attached to staves or to stone 

 collars this posterior band would prevent the lashing by which the 

 object was fastened from slipping over the posterior point; in stones 

 of the first type this end would be accomplished by the enlargement 

 of the posterior appendages. 



TYPE WITH COXOIU PRO.JECTION MODIFIED INTO A HEAD 



This very rare type is represented by only ihive specimens, if we 

 exclude the closely related stone heads or masks. Two of the speci- 

 mens that undoubtedly belong to this type have legs represented; one 

 has these appendages on the sides of the conoid projection, the other 

 at the throat just below the mouth. 



This tyjje, first difl'erentiated and descri))ed by the author in his 

 article on Porto Rican Stone Collars and Tripointed Idols, is not 

 known to be represented in anj' collection except the Smithsonian, 

 and no example of it is found in the Latimer collection. I^he two 

 specimens upon which the type was constructed were purchased in 

 the Archbishop Merino collection from Santo Domingo. Another 

 specimen was obtained in the Neumann collection, and a fourth, more 

 aberrant, was purchased from Seiior Zeno Gandia in 1903. The 

 distinguishing feature of this type is the total absence of the conoid 

 projection, or rather its replacement by a snout or face. The tjpe 

 serves as a connecting link between three-pointed stones and stone 

 heads or masks, to be considered later. There is a strong i^robability 

 that this rare type is strictly Dominican, for three of the specimens 

 are known to have come from Santo Domingo, and the locality of 

 the fourth, that of the Neumann collection, is doubtful. 



Plate XLViii shows views from side and top of one of the most 

 striking objects of this type. While the general form of this object 

 is three-pointed, the anterior and posterior points being similar in 

 form to specimens of the second type, its base is identical in form 

 with that of all other three-pointed stones. 



The apex and the sides of the conoid jirojection are here occupied 

 by an elongated snout with mouth and lips, the whole figure being 

 slightly inclined forward. Between the mouth and the rim of the 

 base there is a series of parallel, roughly cut chevrons, inclosed 

 between two incised grooves that skirt the lower lips. The eye is an 



