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There are also specimens from St. Vincent in the Berlin Museum 

 collected by Mr. Hiickerby. During the author's stay of about six 

 weeks at St. Vincent he visited several refuse heaps, prehistoric 

 mounds or kitchen middens, on both the windward and leeward 

 coasts. An enumeration of a few of the most important of these is 

 givrti below, but there are many others of smaller size that are not 

 considered. Through the kindness of Mr. Huckerby he saw several of 

 the St. Vincent pictographs and visited the middens at Fancy and 

 elsewhere, where a number of strange artifacts are said to have been 

 found. The pictographs of St. Vincent have been well described 

 by Mr. Huckerby.^^ 



KITCHEN MIDDENS 



Refuse piles and other evidences of former occupation by the 

 aborigines are found along the leeward coast of St. Vincent from 

 Kingstown to the extreme northern end of the island, especially 

 wherever there were convenient landing places or where valleys 

 opening to the sea presented available land for cultivation. They 

 are abundant at Barrouallie, Petit Bordel, and Chateau Belair, 

 in which neighborhood we often found bowlders with pictographs 

 and other evidences of past occupation. There are several middens 

 on the windward side, as at Argyle, Stubbs, Overland, and Ouria. 

 The volcano Soufriere has, however, covered with successive erup- 

 tions of ashes most of these evidences of village sites in the northern 

 end of the island, which has been designated on maps since 1733 

 by the name of the Carib country. 



The midden at Fancy, designated on Bryan Edwards's map as 

 a Carib settlement, lies in the Carib country at the extreme nortliern 

 end of the island. It is extensive, but has been somewhat modified 

 in form by the last eruption of Soufriere. A small stream flowing 

 past the Estate House at Fancy has cut its way down through the 

 soft formation, exposing a bank in which were gathered many frag- 

 ments of pottery and worked stones. The top of a low bluff, near 

 where this stream empties into the sea, is covered by a Carib ceme- 

 tery. Here the stream has encroached on the bank, exposing skele- 

 tons of the former natives and washing out human bones that are 

 strewn along the base of the bank. 



The midden at Stubbs, situated on the windward side of St. 

 Vincent, is one of the largest in the island; but as its surface is now 

 almost wholly under cultivation, digging in it was not feasible, 

 as it would disturb not only cultivated fields, but also the founda- 

 tions of inhabited houses. Fragments of pottery are common along 

 the shore where the bank is eroded by the sea, and stones showing 



"'Amer. Anthrop., n. s. vol xvi, pp. 238-244, 1914. 



