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Carib was obtained, showing it to have distantly resembled 

 that of Porto Rico; this cnltnre, however, was not nni- 

 form. Dr. Fewkes also found that there were a number 

 of subcultures in these islands. In prehistoric time Trini- 

 dad and Tobago, it was determined, were somewhat simi- 

 lar culturally, just as they are similar geologically and 

 biologically, to northern South America. In Dr. Fewkes 's 

 opinion perhaps nowhere is the effect of environment on 

 hmnan culture better illustrated than in the chain of 

 islands extending from Grenada to Gruadeloupe, which 

 were inhabited, when discovered, by Carib, some of whose 

 descendants are still to be found in Dominica and St. Vin- 

 cent. The earlier or pre-Carib people were culturally dis- 

 tinct from those of Trinidad in the south, St. Kitts in the 

 north, and Barbados in the east. The stone implements 

 of the area are characteristic and the prehistoric pottery 

 can readily be distinguished from that of the islands be- 

 yond the limits named. 



A large nrnnber of shell heaps on St. Vincent were 

 visited and studies made of localities in that island in 

 which caches of stone implements have been found. Six 

 groups of petroglyjihs were examined, even some of the 

 best known of which have never been described. Special 

 effort was made to obtain information respecting the 

 origin of certain problematical objects of tufaceous stone 

 in the Heye Musemn, said to have been collected from be- 

 neath the lava beds on the flank of the Soufriere. 



Dr. Fewkes visited the locality on the island of Balli- 

 ceavLx where the Carib of St. Vincent were settled after the 

 Carib wars and before they were deported to Roatan, on 

 the coast of Honduras. Extensive excavations were made 

 at the site of their former settlement at Banana Bay, 

 where there is now a midden overgrown with brush. Here 

 much pottery, as well as several human skeletons and some 

 shells and animal bones, were found. 



The mixed-blood survivors of the St. Vincent Carib who 

 once lived at Morne Rond, near the Soufriere, but who are 

 now settled at Campden Park, near Kingstown, were 



