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The ornate design on the panel border of the Strube specimen 

 in Bremen naturally next claims our attention. In considering 

 this example (fig. 37) it will be noticed at once that the mouth, eyes, 

 and all other parts of the face are reversed when compared with 

 the head of the collar in the Heye collection (fig. 38). This is due 

 to the fact that its left side represents the right side of the Heye 

 collar, as will be seen when these collars are laid with the decorative 

 panels uppermost for comparison, in which case the lower jaw in 

 the former is naturally below, while in the latter it is above, a re- 

 versal caused by one' of these collars being right-handed while the 

 other is left-handed. This does not prevent a comparison of similar 

 parts in the ornamen- 

 tation of the collar, 

 but it must be borne 

 in mind that they are 

 in reversed positions. 



We fail to discover 

 on sides of the head 

 of the Bremen collar 

 any indication of 

 those rings or ear or- 

 naments in relief that 

 are so conspicuous in the Heye Museiun specimen. There are likewise 

 no homologues of arms and hands below the chin, but the lateral 

 figures carved in low relief on each side are represented in somewhat 

 modified form. Here occur representations of a joint (y) and the 

 terminal circle with a deep pit (&), leading us to consider them the 

 same organs. The panel is distinct from its border and has no sign 

 of legs. 



Passing to a consideration of a collar figured by Prof. Mason and 

 said to be from Guadeloupe, we discover on the decorated panel 

 border a still greater simplification of the head which here (fig. 39) 

 appears as a circle (h), with eyes and mouth represented by shallow 

 pits. The problematical lateral organs (pa) have here become sim- 

 ple scrolls, with a pit (b) in the middle of the distal end, a conven- 

 tionalization which is paralleled by that shown in another design 

 on the panel margin of a collar from the Latimer collection figured 

 by Mason,^" where the lateral appendages (pa) are reduced to 

 scrolls, although the joint is still angular. 



A similar decorated panel is found in one of the collars of the 

 Latimer collection (fig. 40). 



d.p. 



Fig. 39. — Panel of stone collar (Latimer collection). 



»0p. cit. 



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