FEWKES] CULTUKE AKEAS IN THE WEST INDIES 137 



'■'■Chisels of shell. — Besides the various stone tools my collection in- 

 cludes a series of very fine chisels extracted from the outer edge of 

 the Stro7nbus gigas. This part of the shell is very tliick and harder 

 than stone. It is certain that the Caribs did not use the living 

 Strombus, but were careful to take the fossil Strombi, which had 

 in time acquired the hardness of ivory. 



"Stone for makhig axes. — I have in my possession a very interest- 

 ing stone, which has inscribed on it the use for which it was in- 

 tended. It has concavities on three of its surfaces. It is evidently a 

 kind of grindstone, on which stones were rubbed in order to shape 

 them. 



" Since writing the above I have had the good fortune to discover 

 in Grande-Terre, in a piece of ground which had not been plowed 

 for 60 or 80 years, two tools of flaked flint — a knife and hacking 

 knife. This discovery somewhat modifies the tiieory held to this 

 day by writers on America that flaked flint does not exist in the 

 Antilles. 



" It is very evident, however, that these two flints were not dug 

 from the soil of the island and then flaked by their possessor, for 

 this stone does not exist in Grande-Terre or Guadeloupe in a state 

 of nature. 



" Tliese two flaked flints establish, in an irrefutable manner, the 

 fact of a migration of men from the valleys of the Orinoco toward 

 the islands." 



Tlie account given by Prof. Mason of the Guesde collection was 

 based on the excellent figures in an albiun and not from direct obser- 

 vation of the specimens themselves. Since this report was pub- 

 lished tiie Guesde collection has passed into the possession of the 

 Berlin Museum fiir Viilkerkunde, and in order to familiarize him- 

 self with the typical features, the author visited Berlin in 1913 and 

 prepared new drawings,'' some of which may be of assistance to 

 future students. 



There are many more specimens in the Guesde collection than 

 those thus far described. The collection numbers not far from 600 

 specimens, 190 of which are figured by Mason in his monograph. 

 M. Guesde apparently did not prepare drawings of some of the most 

 typical forms, and some of those wliich Mason figures were not in 

 the collection studied by the author. The majority of the specimens, 

 however, were examined and their special features noted, and the 

 more typical forms, several of which do not occur in any other collec- 

 tion, are here illustrated. It is hardly necessary for me to state that 

 the Guesde collection is by far the best, as it is the only one of size 

 from the island of Guadeloupe. 



™ These drawings were made from the objects thfrnselves by Herr von den Stelnen, of 

 Berlin. 



