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ISLAND CULTURE AREA OF AMERICA 



[ETH. ANN. 34 



BAHAMA ISLANDS 



East Caicos-— 

 Grand Caieos_ 

 North Caicos _ 



Providence 



West Caicos-- 

 Great Inagua _ 



Mariguana 



Plana «'ayo__. 

 Acljlin 



25 



68 



104 



59 



20 



201 



6 



1 



2 



Crooked 



Ragged 



Eleuthera 



Royal 



New Providence . 



Great Abaco 



Mores 



Little Abaco 



2 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 3, 

 1 

 2 

 2 



Some of these specimens have been collected on various expeditions 

 sent by Mr. Heye to the islands, but the majority have been pur- 

 chased for him by Rev. Thomas Huckerby from collectors in the 

 Lesser Antilles. A large part of this report is taken up in a consid- 

 eration of these specimens. 



The author also visited these islands to gather data in the field 

 before writing this i-eport,*" and spent the winter of 1912-13 in the 

 Lesser Antilles, visiting Trinidad, St. Vincent, Barbados, St. Kitts, 

 and Santa Cruz, where he obtained important material. He like- 

 wise made short visits to other islands, examining and making notes 

 on specimens in various public and private collections on the islands, 

 which are embodied in this memoir. 



In order to get all possible information bearing on the forms and 

 uses of these objects the author, in the winter of 1913-14. visited 

 several European museums rich in West Indian objects, as those 

 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Bremen and Berlin, Germany; Vienna 

 and Prague, Austria. A considerable number of drawings were 

 made on this trip, especially in the Berlin Museum, which is one of 

 the richest in these objects on the European Continent. On a re- 

 cent trip to Europe, Prof. Marshall H. Saville, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, kindly obtained for the author several photographs of rare 

 West Indian antiquities in the museums of London, Paris, and 

 Madrid. The West Indian collection in the Heye Museum has also 

 been enlarged by specimens purchased by the author from Seiior 

 Seiyo, of Arecibo, Porto Rico, and other local collectors. 



The description of artifacts in the Heye Museum is accompanied 

 by short accounts of related objects in other museums from the same 

 islands from which the material was obtained. For convenience in 

 the consideration of the subject the geographical method is adopted, 

 the West Indies being divided into areas, which are supposed to indi- 

 cate culture centers. The aim has been not so much a description of 

 specimens as a consideration of a highly developed insidar culture 

 peculiar to America as a whole preparatory to a comparison of it 

 with that of the neighboring continent. 



1° The work was done under cooperation of the Heye Museum and the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. 



