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jaw are uncommon, but like other features are suggestive of a turtle's 

 head. The two appendages at the sides evidently represent flippers. 



The well-modeled head indicated in plate 5, E, is attached to a 

 section of the rim, but placed lengthwise instead of vertically, as in 

 other specimens. The snout is elongated, while the mouth extends 

 far backward; the eyes are indicated by pits, and a round projection 

 separated by grooves appears on the forehead. 



The degree of conventionalization in these specimens is some- 

 times very great, as in plate 5, F, where practically all resemblance 

 to a head is lost. Here we have a disk attached by one margin to 

 the rim of a bowl, which is ornamented with a rude incised design. 

 A handle distantly related to the last is illusti-ated in plate 7, A. 



It often happens that the walls of the orifice of a flask-shaped 

 bottle are modified into a perforated clay head,^' as in the specimens 

 shown in plate 6, A, B, C. 



Plate 6 shows varying, forms of effigy heads which served as 

 handles of vessels. All of them have well-developed nostrils, ej'es, 

 and other facial features. The presence of nostrils differentiates 

 these heads from many others and affords a hint, although obscure, 

 as to the identity of the animal designed to be represented. We find 

 similar nostrils in certain three-pointed stone idols from Porto Eico, 

 which we have other good reasons to identify as reptiles, hence the 

 conclusion is fairly logical that these heads were intended to repre- 

 sent similar creatures. 



Plate 7, A, 5, are unlike any other heads in the collection. 



The heads illustrated in plate 7, C, D, E^ can not, by reason of 

 their highly conventionalized character, be readily assigned to any of 

 the forms above considered. 



The two projections on top of the head and the form of the eyes 

 and nose of the effigy shown in plate 7, F^ are exceptional. The 

 crescentic mouth is suggestive of the same organ in certain unde- 

 termined Porto Rican stone idols of three-pointed form. 



The unpaired nostril of the effigj' shown in plate 8, ^4, is indicated 

 by a single pit in the summit of a conical projection; the eyes are 

 prominent and contain crescentic slits. This head, as shown by a 

 fragment of the rim still attached, projected farther beyond the bowl 

 than is usually the case. The flat form of the head suggests an 

 alligator, but it was evidently designed to represent a mythological 

 conception rather than a realistic animal. 



If superficial likenesses of conventionalized figures are regarded as 

 reliable for identification, plate 8, 5, might well be considered to 

 represent a shark's head, for the position of the mouth in this speci- 



3' This is the first example of a bead from a prehistoric ilasklilce vessel from Trinidad 

 or the Lesser Antilles, although common in Haiti and Santo Domingo. 



