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lip along the side emphasized by deepening the grooves between them. 

 Numerous implements have almost the same shape as petaloid or 

 almond-shapetl celts. The ordinary Scandinavian type with a blunt 

 head is common. 



Cylinders made of shell, clay (pi. 82, /, =/), and stone are found in 

 the Connell collection. A shell cylinder shown has its surface in- 

 cised with dots and lines forming a design {p\. S3, B) of unknown 

 meaning. The same design appears on cylinders of clay (pi. 82. 11), 

 a broken fragment of which is in the Connell collection. 



Plate 83, A, represents a ring made of burnt clay. 



The shell ornament (pi. 84, A) from Stone Fort is rectangular in 

 shape and has three parallel marks connected with a transverse 

 groove incised at each end. This unique form has been provisionally 

 interpreted as an ornament, but its true meaning may later be shown 

 to be a much different character. 



The shell object (pi. 84, B) is provisionally called a spoon on 

 account of the concavity on one side. It is convex on one side, con- 

 cave on the oijposite, and perforated at each end. 



The shell object shown in plate 84, (', is of unknown use. but the 

 indications are that it was used as an ornament. Other similar forms 

 with additional perforations also occur in the Connell collection. 



Ornaments of shell and stone of an elongated pendant form are 

 niunerous. Some of the varieties of these are shown in plate 84, 

 E, F. Figure D has a circular form and is perforated. In one 

 or two instances these have a groove cut around one end. 



The object, plate 84, G, shown laterally and from above, calls to 

 mind forms of labrets. It is ovate with medial groove, smooth, and 

 of relatively small size. 



The conical objects like the accompanying figures (pis. 77, C, D, 

 84, H, I , L) are of imknown meaning. These are specimens of stone 

 and shell, one of the latter (/) having a pointed crest, which is ser- 

 rated." 



POTTERY 



The pottery of St. Kitts is among the finest in the Lesser An- 

 tilles and is commonly red or red and white, generally with incised 

 decorations. The Connell collection contains several rare fonns never 

 before figured. 



There is a marked resemblance between the St. Kitts pottery and 

 that from the St. Vincent-Grenada area, but there is sufficient indi- 

 viduality to indicate that the St. Kitts pottery belongs to a subarea 

 allied in some particulars to the ceramics of the Greater Antilles. 



" A specimen of the same type made of stone is figured in the author's Aborigines of 

 Porto Rico, Twenty-fifth Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pi. xxiii, I. 



