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The two legs, one on each side, are very characteristic. The ante- 

 rior appendage consists of a tubercle with a pit representing the 

 shoulder, a slim forearm extending to an elbow at the rim of the 

 bowl, and another forearm brought forward and ending in feet or 

 fingers. 



The arrangement of the posterior appendages («') is somewhat 

 similar. A thigh is represented on each side at the equator of the 

 bowl, and from it arises the upper joint that extends backward to the 

 knee, forming a projection with tubercle and pit. The lower joint 

 of the posterior appendage is bent forward and ends at the mouth of 

 the jar. The soles of the feet are triangular. A ridge extending 

 directly from the thigh joint to the feet of the posterior limbs incloses 

 a triangular area, in the middle of which there is an incised circle 

 with central dot. There is a similar ridge connecting the shoulder 

 with the elbow of the anterior legs, also forming a triangle deco- 

 rated with a circle and dot. On the side of the bowl between the 

 two pairs of appendages there are 

 incised triangles, a semicircular 

 groove, and rows of pits. 



The globular bowl shown in 

 plate Lxxix, (/, «', one of the finest 

 as well as the most instructive in 

 the whole collection, was obtained 

 by purchase fi'om Seiior Neu- 

 mann," of Ponce. Porto Kico. Its 

 surface has both relief and incised 

 decorations. Seen from one side 

 (figure 36) are two eyes in relief, 



over which are arched crescentic ridges that form the eyebrows 

 ridges merge on the middle line and form between the eyes a low 

 ridge, forming a nose that broadens slightly at the extremity, where 

 there are two pits representing nostrils. There is no indication of a 

 mouth; the eyebrows, eyes, and nose appear in view fi'om above (see 

 a'). On the sides of the bowl, behind the eyes, are two flat oval areas 

 in low relief crossed by parallel lines, suggesting appendages, possibly 

 feet. At the ends of these lines there are small pits, a mode of deco- 

 ration found also on the larger areas of this specimen and common on 

 other bowls and decorated fragments of pottery. Opposite the head, 

 at about the same distance from the opening of the jar as the head, is a 

 broken tail, which, like the relief areas above mentioned, is crossed by 

 parallel lines, each with terminal pits. Two half -oval regions, slightly 

 raised in relief and situated between the tail and the legs, have pairs of 

 parallel lines crossing one another about at right angles, the lines of 

 each pair inclosing a I'ow of shallow pits. The four triangular figures 



a Ediiardo Neumann Gandia. Jienefactores y liombres Notables de Puerto Rico. 2 vols., Ponce, 1896. 



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Fig. 36. Bird-eflig.v bOH 1. (Neumann ■ 



ollection.) 



These 



