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St. Vincent and Guadeloupe, submerged the Tainan culture and sub- 

 stituted for it a mixed one. 



Tobago 



The artifacts ascribed to the island of Tobago, as seen by the 

 author, approach so closely those of the northern part of Trinidad 

 that this island is included in the Trinidad area. In these collec- 

 tions occur several axes with wings on their heads and notches on their 

 bodies, and a few celts of petaloid form, which were purchased by 

 the author when in Trinidad in 1912-13. The majority were said to 

 have been found in a sugar-cane field near Scarborough, Tobago. No 

 middens are reported in the various archeological references to the 

 islands, and none were seen by the author in his limited visits. 



BARBADOS 



Very little has been published on the archeology of Barbados, and 

 practically no attempt has been made to determine from archeological 

 data the aboriginal culture of the island. References to the aborigi- 

 nes occur in works devoted to the history of the island, among which 

 are those of Hughes, Poyer, Schomburgk, Ligon, and others, but 

 these histories deal more particularly with the colonization epoch 

 and early European history, many having been written before it was 

 recognized that man lived on Barbados before the advent of the 

 whites. 



The opinion is generally expressed, even in the most reliable and 

 complete historical accounts, that Barbados was uninhabited when 

 discovered by the Portuguese in 1505, and that the aborigines had 

 wholly disappeared in 1626. when the English took possession of 

 the island and settled it. Although not definitely stated, it is im- 

 plied by several authors that Barbados never had a prehistoric 

 aboriginal population, but that it was temporarily visited from time 

 to time by Carib or other Indians from neighboring islands for the 

 purpose of fishing or hunting. Archeological evidences show, on the 

 contrary, that the island had a considerable population in prehis- 

 toric times, and that the culture of this aboriginal population was 

 somewhat different from that of the neighboring islands. 



The large number of implements of shell found both in the in- 

 terior and on the coast of Barbados, and the extent of the several 

 middens, show without question that the island had a prehistoric 

 population of considerable gize. Descendants of the original popu- 

 lation lived in Barbados as late as the English colonization, and the 

 name of the chief city of Barbados, Bridgetown, is now thought to 

 be due to its vicinity to the "Indian bridge," made of logs, now re- 

 placed by the well-known crossing. There is no doubt that there was 

 an Indian village near Bridgetown at Indian River, one of the best 



