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Plate 94, 5, also in the Heye collection, represents one of the sim- 

 plest forms of stone masks. It has an oval form, with eyes and mouth 

 represented as shallow depressions, while nose and lips are in relief. 

 It has all the features found in the typical stone masks, but is dis- 

 tinguished from tlie majority by the two round symmetrical protu- 

 berances, one on each cheek. In some of the engraved stones that 

 have lost all resemblance to masks, homologues of these protuberances 

 alone remain, and in one or two instances there are three of these 

 projections, one on each cheek and one in the middle of the fore- 

 head. 



The nodule type is differentiated from stone heads and stone masks 

 because body and limbs, one or all, are graven on them. There sur- 

 vives in them no indication of the point or cutting edge of a ceremo- 

 nial celt and no projection by which they can be bound to other ob- 

 jects. To all intents they i-esemble idols except that they are destitute 

 of any flat base by which they may be made to stand upright. They 

 show no evidence of having been attached to a wooden laase or a pup- 

 pet made of fabrics which has been suggested for the head. This 

 type was unknown when the memoir, Aborigines of Porto Rico, 

 was written, and so far as known has not been differentiated from the 

 other types. 



There are in the Berlin Museum three specimens which can be re- 

 ferred to this type, the essentials of which will appear in the follow- 

 ing description : 



The first of these (pi. 93, B, C), from Cape Haitien, has an almost 

 globular form, more like an ovate spheroid, in which the organs of 

 the face and arms are cut in low relief on one side. The eyes, repre- 

 sented by simple slits, are cut obliquely and are surrounded by a 

 raised side. The lips are large and the nose more or less broken. 

 Just below the lower lip we find representations of the fingers, four 

 in number, connected by a ridge that surrounds and incloses the 

 face. This ridge probably represents the arms, the elbows being 

 situated just below the hands. 



The nodule figured (pi. 94, A) is from Les Cayes, Haiti, and is 

 much more complicated- in its carving, because both arms and legs 

 are represented. In this specimen the chin is pointed, and the face 

 has the eyes, nose, and teeth carved in relief. The nose has an in- 

 verted T shape. The forehead is low and, like the chin, indicated 

 by a curved line. An exceptional feature of the face is the two 

 parallel vertical markings on each cheek. These recall the grooves 

 on the cheek of an etched stone from Nipe Bay, Cuba, elsewhere 

 figured.*" 



'» Twenty-aflh .\Dn. Rept. Bui-. Amer. Ethn., pi. uxxil, b, and Amer. Anthrop., n. s. vol. 

 VI, no. 5, pi. XVIII, 1. 



