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between base and orifice. This bowl was found upside down about 

 2 feet below the surface, covering a vertebra of a fish, 11 flint 

 scrapers, and 3 small chisels. 



STONE OBJECTS 



There are two amulets in the Connell collection representing the 

 frog, one of which, shown in plate 85, F, recalls the Prague speci- 

 men described on page 234. This specimen is made of a green 

 stone-like jadeite and is perforated through the head. The raised 

 ridge on the groove that separates the head from the neck is not seen 

 in the cast of the Prague specimen and the eyes are wanting in the 

 Connell object. 



An examination of the different forms of amulets that have been 

 figured shows no fetish in form of a frog, but as the technique is 

 purely Antillean there appears to be no doubt that this specimen 

 came from one of the West Indies. From its resemblance to speci- 

 mens from Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Cuba the author supposes 

 that it came from the Greater Antilles. 



There is in the Public Library collection at St. Kitts a goblet- 

 shaped mortar with two handles projecting, one from each side. 

 This specimen is unique, but mortars in which the base is not dif- 

 ferentiated from the body and in which the handles are absent are 

 not rare. 



A flat rectangular stone, with four short stumpy legs, and a depres- 

 sion as if due to grinding on the top, may liave been used as a metate 

 in grinding maize, yuca root, or cassava bread. This specimen also 

 reminds one of seats (duhos) found in Porto Rico and some of tlie 

 Greater Antilles, especially Jamaica. 



An exceptional worked stone object (pi. 85, (?,//) in the St. Kitts 

 Public Museum collection has a spherical or ovate shape with a de- 

 pression on one side, imparting to it the appearance of a small 

 mortar; but on one side of the wall of this concavity there is a 

 projection resembling a handle extending into the depression, which 

 is liollowed on each side as here shown. This unique specimen recalls 

 somewhat an artificially worked stone in the Connell collection. 



Plate 86, A, represents a shell object of unknown use. unique in 

 West Indian collections, and 5, a shell disk which is perforated. 

 (■' is the spire of a shell perforated and apparently used as a tinkler. 

 D represents the lip of a conch shell with ridges artificially inten- 

 sified. The object shown from above, from below, and in section in 

 E is made of bone, but its use is not known. /' shows two imple- 

 ments, possibly made of human bone. 



