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under the chin. The body itself is not shown. The fingei's and toes 

 are represented by shallow grooves. The head is indicated by a 

 carved circle, of which, owing to the fact that the top of the celt 

 is missing, not more than half can be seen. However, the right ear 

 is still shown outside the circle. The eyes and mouth are cut in 

 intaglio; the nose and the right eyebrow are in low relief."** 



The general style of the stone cutting is very similar to that of 

 an idol now in the Trocadero Museum, Paris, although the disposi- 

 tion of the limbs is different and the latter has a large umbilicus, 

 which is missing in tiie Bahama specimen. The outlines of the faces 

 of both are similar and the details of the carving of the nose almost 

 identical. 



Mr. De Booy, in the author's opinion, has correctly identified this 

 specimen as a ceremonial celt, but it has certain features that impart 

 to it an interest apart from its resemblance to an engraved petaloid. 

 One of these features is the manner in which the hands are brought to 

 the body, as the grooves representing fingers are longitudinal instead 

 of horizontal. 



HUMAN HEADS AND FIGURES 



The passage from petaloid cells with human faces or heads en- 

 graved upon them to stone heads that have lost all resemblance to 

 celts bifurcates into two directions, one of which leads to stone heads 

 with a prolongation on the back of the head, either above or below or 

 in both directions; the other to stones with graven heads or faces, 

 but with no projections. The former are called in the author's 

 Aborigines of Porto Rico stone heads ; the latter, stone masks. 



In neither of these are the limbs or body represented with the 

 heads, which separates them from another group in which portions 

 of the body or limbs or both are represented. In both also the sem- 

 blance to a ceremonial celt is lost by the absence of any representation 

 of th" '^'^int or cutting edge. In the other group we have simply a 

 stone nodule with representations of a human head or other parts of 

 the body carved on its surface. These forms have no visible projec- 

 tions by which they could have been lashed to a staff or which may 

 have served as a handle. 



Figures of various forms of stone heads with projections for lash- 

 ing will be found in the article on the Aborigines of Porto Rico, and 

 in Mr. Joyce's paper already mentioned,*' where they are called stone 

 heads. Heads or faces (pi. 91, A) cut on the surfaces of stones with- 

 out projections by which they may be attached to a staff are also 

 figured in my article under the name "stone masks" — a term open 



" Amer. Anthrop., n. s. vol. xv, pp. 6, 7. 



" Prphistoric antiquities frnm the Antilles, in the British Museum. Journ. Roy. Anthr. 

 Inst., vol. xxxvii, pp. 402-419. 



