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7. Museum of the University of Havana. — Aside fi'om a brief field 

 nute made by the author, tliere is little information concerning a 

 ceremonial petaloid now preserved in the University of Havana. This 

 specimen was thus referred to in the author's article on the Pre- 

 historic Culture of Cuba:^' "Among the objects seen in these two 

 collections [Academia de Ciencias, and University at Vedado] are 

 10 petaloid celts in the Academy museum and about double that 

 number at the University. One of those in the latter collection has 

 a stone handle like those obtained by me in 1903 in Santo Domingo. 

 There is also a celt with a face cut on one side — evidently a cere- 

 monial celt like one in Archbishop Merino's collection." 



8. Copenhagen Museum. — There is a remarkably engraved petaloid 

 celt in the Ethnological Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark. This 

 specimen (pi. 89, A,B,C) is of a hard black stone, well made, with its 

 surface smoothly polished. It is said to have come originally from 

 Santo Domingo, and to have been added to the museum in the year 

 1861. Through the kindness of Prof. Sophus Muller, director of the 

 museum, the author has been able to take the photographs from 

 which the accompanying illustrations were made. The only other 

 figure of this object is published by Rudolph Cronau in his book on 

 America."^ 



Certain implements ascribed to prehistoric Santo Domingo find a 

 fitting place in our classifications near the ceremonial petaloid celts. 

 Their form is somewhat dill'erent, but can readily be reduced to 

 the same type. The main difference appears to be the absence 

 of a cutting edge, the pointed end being prolonged into a long 

 pointed blade. These objects with figures carved on their handles 

 and long blades suggest stone dirks. Two of these are known to 

 the author. 



9. Heye Museum (Stone "Dirk"). — On his expedition to Santo 

 Domingo, in the interest of the Heye Museum, Mr. Theodoor de 

 Booy collected in that Republic a stone dirk (pi. 90, A, 5, C) which, 

 while allied to some of the incised ceremonial celts, still shows a form 

 quite unlike any previously described. The specimen was formerly 

 in the collection of the late Senor Jose Gabriel Garcia, of Santo 

 Domingo City. Its general form, as shown in a photograph 

 taken by Mr. Theodoor de Booy, from side, front, and rear, re- 

 sembles a dirk, the handle of which is modified into a rude figure of a 

 human being, and the pointed end prolonged into a blade. It 

 roeasures 8 inches in length. 



" Amer. Anthrop , d. s., vol. vi, No. .'>. p. 594. 



" Amerika, vol. i, p. 357. Crouau lalM'ls his figure of this object, a " hand weapon," 

 an Identiflcation that is not far from correct. 



