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resembles those constantly found engraved on stone images or 

 modeled in terra cotta for handles of Antillean bo\Yls or vases. It 

 represents a being wearing a kind of Phrygian cap, with mouth half 

 open, large eyes, and other features recalling a turtle or some reptile. 

 Two anus {a, a), with the elbows bent and showing the palms of 

 the hands and the fingers, are well represented and rise fnmi under 

 (I. . , the chin. The hands 



■ ' ' appear to hold uji 



rings cut at the sides 

 of the head, which 

 they touch on each 

 side, and are inter- 

 preted as representa- 

 tions of ears Or ear or- 



FiG. 37.— Dpcor.TtPil panel and panel border of the Strube naments. Tliese rings 

 stone collar (Bremen Museum). ^p^^^jj ^j^^ ^^^^^ j^j^g^ 



of the ears in certain stone yokes found in Vera Cruz and other 

 Mexican States. The umbilicus appears on the body just below the 

 chin, and on each side are rectangular carvings {d, p), supposed to 

 represent other parts of the body. 



In the collar of the Hej'e collection there is practically no sepa- 

 ration of the panel border and the panel, or rather the former has 

 extended over the latter, which remains as a rectangular design 

 (d, p) filling the areas on each side of the anterior appendages (a) 

 and below the problematical lateral extensions (pa). 



Extending on each side of these rings on the upper margin of 

 the collar there is an interesting conventional figure in relief, unlike 

 a leg or any other part of the body, l)ut which is seen constantly 

 in modified form in 



other collars. In a A i' 



general way this dec- 

 oration (pa) consists 

 of a distal portion, 

 which is more or less 

 angular and of cubi- 

 cal form with a me- 

 dian pit (b). and a 

 proximal region con- 

 nected by means of a knee-shaped relief figure (/'), with the head 

 and all other portions of the design. The parts represented in this 

 carving are the head, forearms, ear lobe or ornament of the ear, 

 and a knee-like problematic body. Every organ except the last 

 can be readily identified, but in order to determine the meaning of 

 the knee-like member we must consider similar relief designs on 

 collars in other collections. 



Fig. 38. — Panel of stone collar (Heye Museum). 



