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to a purpose now unknown. Its form is, however, so far as known, 

 unique, althoujih we have certain approximations, as the circular 

 stone obtained by the aiitlior from Archbishop Meriiio and figured 

 in his Aborigines of Porto Kico."" 



Fia. 24. — Probli'inatlcnl stone. Guadeloupf. Berlin collection. 

 (12.25 Inches.) 



No implement is more enigmatical than that shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration (pi. 76, A, B) from the Berlin Museum. At 

 first sight we might suppose this to represent a new form of ax, and 

 the curved cutting edge at one end seems to support such an iden- 



■^ Twenty-flf th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amor. Ethn.. pi. xxxlil, d. 



