FEWKES] AECHEOLOGICAL OBJECTS 1(>3 



knob, but with no indication of a band. The decorated panel, as will 

 be seen hj referring- to the accompanj'ing- illustration, passes imper- 

 ceptibly into the end of the undecorated panel. The shoulder is 

 angular and the surface rough. 



Specimen /' has a highly ornamented decorated panel with well- 

 marked panel groove and ridge. The knob is conspicuous, the band 

 bead-like; the undecorated panel is absent. The shoulder of this 

 .specimen is round, with no tendency to angularity, its surface rough 

 and unpolished. While several of the parts of a tj'pical massive 

 collar are evident in this specimen, its general ajjpearance is some- 

 what ditierent; of all the specimens obtained from Porto Rico this 

 approximates most closelj- to the stone rings from the coast states of 

 Mexico. 



Specimen /'has all the appearance of an unfinished collar, the super- 

 ficial decorations being simply blocked out. There is no differentia- 

 tion of the panels, and the knob and band are only obscurel}' indicated. 

 This is the heaviest collar in the collection, but not the rudest in de- 

 sign, for there are two others which have no indication whatever of 

 superficial decoration of anj' kind. 



Professor Mason describes five specimens of ma.ssive collars, four 

 of which are right-shouldered and one is left-shouldered. The two 

 .specimens figured can hardly be called typical, one (no. 17107) hav- 

 ing a certain likeness to that figured as ?>, plate lxv, which is an 

 aberrant form. 



The main features of the massive oval collars, besides thos(» implied 

 in their name, are the total absence of the boss, a tendency of the pro- 

 jection to doubling, and the absence of a ridge or groove about the 

 undecorated panel which contains the pit, so constant in slender ovate 

 collars. 



An examination of this series of massive collars, none of which 

 have ever before been figured or described, shows that they should 

 not be regarded as unfinished specimens of the slender oblique tj-pe 

 unless it is to be supposed that unfinished collars have decorations of 

 their own that can not be modified into those characteristic of the 

 slender oblique collars. The distinct oval form of the massive collars, 

 as compared with the pointed ovate form of the slender collars, is 

 also an argument against supposing that the former are unfinished 

 forms of the latter. 



SLENDER COLLARS 



Plate LXTi, it, I'epresents a slender stone collar of the Latimer collec- 

 tion with an obscure knob and a t)road, slightly rounded band. Its 

 surface is rough and unpolished, and there is an indication of a boss. 

 The undecorated panel is barely differentiated from the body of the 

 collar. Specimen i is a .slender ovate collar in which the different 



