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The specimen, plate 97, ^l, from a photograph procured by Prof. 

 Saville from Dauherton, Paris, shows modifications in the edge of tlie 

 undecorated panel border, somewhat different from the last, although 

 comparable with it. The parts represented are a median head with 

 hvteral appendages, recalling the more extensive design on the elabo- 

 rate form of the massive collar (pi. 95, ^1). The slender ovate collar 

 figured in plate 97, B-, is in the Trocadero Museum, Paris, and is 

 exceptional in the relatively large development of the boss. There is 

 also a remote resemblance in the projection to a head, which assumes 

 the reptilian form in the specimen from the Bremen Museum. Inci- 

 dentally attention may be called to the neat method of installation 

 which is worthy of adoption in other museums. 



In another specimen from the same museum shown in plate 97, i\ 

 the boss is not as prominent, and the region of the undecorated panel 

 is more massive. The shoulder band is broad, the projection not 

 being visible in the view here given. The photograph (pi. 97, D) 

 here reproduced was likewise made by Dauherton, and procured for 

 the author by Prof. M. H. Saville. 



One of the most instructive stone collars known to the author 

 was described by him in his article on "A Prehistoric Stone Collar 

 from Porto Rico."" The knob of this collar is modified into the 

 head of a serpent or some reptile. In this article the author shows 

 that the knobs of several collars may represent the heads of some 

 reptilian form and if that conclusion has any impoitant significance 

 in a determination of the identify of the type we may adopt the 

 serpent theory, or that the stone collar represents a serpent idol. In 

 this article the homologies of other parts of stone collars are con- 

 sidered to such an extent that the paper is here quoted at length. 



Attention was first called to a stone collar with knob modified 

 into a snake's head in the following lines of an article on Porto Rico 

 Stone Collars and Tripointed Idols :°* "Sometimes the projection is 

 ferruled, often with pits like eyes, and in one collar the prominence 

 is said to have the form of a snake's head." To this is added the 

 following note : " This specimen is owned by Mr. Leopold B. Strube, 

 of Arecibo, who has sent the author i^ drawing which shows the 

 knob in the form of a snake's head." This reference was later 

 quoted in the writer's memoir on the Aborigines of Porto Rico.^" 



On a recent visit to Europe the author examined the specimen, 

 now in Bremen/'" and made the (h-awings reproduced in figures 



^ Amer. Anthrop.. n. .s.. vol. xvi, pp. 319-330. 



" Smithsonian MiscollHiieons Collpctious. vol. xi.vii, pt. 2, 1904. 



"'Twenty-atth Ann. Kept. Bur. Anier. Ethn. 



"^ The author acknowledgi'S with pleasure his inaelitpdness to Dr. Johannes Weissenl)orn, 

 curator of ethnology in the StaUliohe Museum, Bremen, for the opportunity of stuilying 

 this instructive specimen. * 



