A PREHISTORIC ISLAND CULTURE AREA 

 OF AMERICA 



A REPORT ON PREHISTORIC OBJECTS FROM THE WEST 

 INDIES IN THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN 

 INDIAN (HEYE FOUNDATION) IN 1914 



By J. Walter Fewkes 



INTRODUCTION 



In the year 1911 the author was invited by Mr. Georpe G. Heye, 

 of New York, to examine his collection of Indian antiquities with 

 a view to publishing a report upon them. This collection, even 

 then, was very extensive, and since that time has been greatly en- 

 larged in number ' of specimens, so that in October, 1914, it con- 

 tained about 9,500 prehistoric objects from the West Indies. 

 The localities in which these were found are indicated on plate 1 and 

 the number of objects obtained from each island is shown in the 

 following table : 



GREATER AND LESSER ANTILLES 



Trinidad 481 



Tobago 200 



Grenada 864 



Carriacou 583 



Union 5 



Connoun 12 



Balliceaux 49 



Bequla 17 



St. Vincent 3,228 



Barbados 169 



Santa Lucia 414 



Dominica 66 



Guadeloupe 



Nevis 



St. Kitts 



Saba 



Tortola 



St. Thomas 



Santa Cruz 



Porto Rico 



Saona 



Republic of Santo Domingo. 



Cuba 



Jamaica 



99 

 3 



19 

 1 

 1 

 2 



219 

 386 

 171 

 1,478 

 67 

 569 



* Since thi.s article was written the number of Antillean objects in the He.ve collec- 

 tion has greatly increased through the addition of the collections made b.v De Boo.v, 

 Harrington, and others. Those from Trinidad, Santo Domingo, and the Virgin Island.s 

 have already been described by the late Theodoor de Booy, and a report on the Cuban 

 collection made by Hanington will shortly be published. 



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