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these organs are simply pits or dei^ressions. In 



figure 8 the face is in relief. Both figures 7 and 



8 have a transverse perforation, which would 



seem to indicate ^that they were not pestles, but 



were suspended, possibly as ornaments. 



On plate 35 there are figured a number of 



pestles which vary in shape, all but one {B) 



having the conventional form. That repre- 

 sented in A has a circular base and the point of 



the handle turned to one side. In C the form is 



angular, a rare condition among pestles, but D 



has the regular conical form. The point of the 



handle is cut off by a flat plane in E and in F 



the whole implement is pyriform. The pestle 

 shown in G is bicornis, and 

 II also originally had two 

 horns, one of which is 

 broken. / has a constric- 

 tion near the base and 

 the top of the handle is ^'l" '^■-f °"<" ""^^^ '■> 



'■ shape of pestle. (3.88 



rounded. inches.) 



Stone Fetishes, Amulets, and Idols 

 The St. Vincent area has furnished a few 

 fetishes that illustrate the idolatry of the Lesser 

 Antilles. Rep- 

 resentations of 

 idols that exist 

 in public or 

 private col- 

 lections from 

 these islands 

 are not as well 



made as those from the Santo 



Domingo-Porto Eican area and 



the characteristic forms of those 



known from the two areas are 



different. The only examples 



of three-pointed stones are two 



or three specimens belonging to 



the fourth ty\}Q which were col- 

 lected in Grenada. There are 



only a few of these, and I doubt 



whether those known came 



from St. Vincent or from the 



Greater Antilles. 



160658°— 34 ETH— 22 8 



Fig. 8. — Head and han- 

 dle of broken pestle. 



Ftstlt shaped problematical object. 



