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ing snout and prominent eye. The head, plate 66, D, resembles that 

 of a turtle and is more angular than the head of a bird. The upper 

 jaw, which resembles a beak, extends beyond the lower and temiinates 

 in nostrils. The exceptional feature of this head is a row of holes 

 at its attachment to the body, representing the flat dish of which it 

 was one of the handles. 



Plate 67, .1, is likewise identified as the head of a turtle. It has 

 an enlargement back of the head near its attachment, in which are 

 pits corresponding to the row of holes described in plate 66, D. 



Plate 67, 5, represents a head with a pointed snout, resembling the 

 wild hog, or peccary. The nostrils have the form of simple projec- 

 tions and the ears are indicated by raised ridges near the perforated 

 eyes. In the mid- 

 dle of the forehead 

 there is a rounded 

 elevation with a 

 central pit — a fea- 

 ture recalling that 

 found in three- 

 pointed stones rep- 

 resenting reptiles. 



The head, plate 

 67, C, is more or 

 less simian, and 

 its fonn recalls 

 those from Gre- 

 nada figured by the 

 author in his "Ab- 

 origines of Porto 

 Kico."^" A re- 

 markable feature 



of this head is the pair of disk-shaped appendages just above the 

 level of the eyes. The same or similar organ is shown also in plate 

 67, E, where the monkey face is even more striking than in C. Plate 

 67, D, has the appendage l?etween the eyes in the form of a low cone 

 or horn, while the highly conventionalized form, plate 67, F^ defies 

 interpretation. 



One of the largest and best-preserved fragments of Grenada pot- 

 tery, much reduced in size, is shown in plate 68, A. The patches of 

 pigment with which this object was painted can still be seen adher- 

 ing to its surface. Tliis illustration represents the top of a jar the 

 sides of which are missing, but the flat, heart-shaped base from 

 which the head rises is a cover to the neck of a flask or vase with 



Fiu 



-Hollow clay cylinder with face in relief, 

 inches.) 



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'"Twenty-fifth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amcr. Ethn. 



