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'• The elbow stone type of objects is represented by 12 specimens 

 in the archeolofjical collections studied by the author. Objects of 

 this type are therefore less numerous than the collars, of which there 

 are alDout 100 in different collections. Elbow stones have not been 

 found in Cuba. Jamaica, or the Lesser Antilles, and have never been 

 reported from the American mainland. Their distribution in the 

 West Indies corresponds closely with that of stone collars and three- 

 pointed stones, which are practically confined to Porto Eico, His- 

 paniola (Haiti and Santo Domingo), and possibly eastern Cuba. 

 The author is of course aware that stone collars and three-pointed 

 stones have been recorded from certain of the Lesser Antilles, but 

 their number, or rather their relative proportion to other prehistoric 

 objects from the same islands," is so small that he is inclined to ques- 

 tion the recorded provenance of these specimens. Thus the late Pro- 

 fessor O. T. Mason described and figured a single collar in the Guesde 

 collection from Guadeloupe, and M. Alphonse Pinart ascribed an- 

 other specimen of this type to the same island. Among several hun- 

 dred stone objects from St. Vincent the author has not seen a single 

 collar or three-pointed stone, and he therefore reasonably suspects 

 that the locality of the single broken fragment of the latter type 

 ascribed to St. A^incent by Mr. Joyce is doubtful. It is the writer's 

 belief that these objects are not indigenous to the Lesser Antilles. 

 With a collar in the British Museum described by Joyce and said to 

 have been found in St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, the case is 

 somewhat different. St. Thomas, St. Croix, and neighboring islands 

 belong to the same prehistoric culture area as Porto Eico, hence stone 

 collars may rightly be expected in them; in fact, a fragment of a 

 collar undoubtedly found in St. Croix is now in the Nordby collec- 

 tion at Christiansted, the chief city of that island. 



"As the author intends to point out elsewhere that the localization 

 of characteristic stone objects determines certain archeological areas, 

 he will now only briefly mention the existence of several well-defined 

 prehistoric Antillean culture areas. The majority of stone objects 

 from the St. Vincent-Grenada area are radically different from those 

 of St. Kitts, and these in turn differ from those of the Barbados 

 area. Stone collars, elbow stones, and three-pointed stones are pecu- 

 liar to the Porto Rico-Haiti culture area, and when found elsewhere 

 in the West Indies are l)elieved to have been introduced. * * * 



" For convenience of study the two arms of an elbow atone [pi. 98, 

 B] may be designated as riglit and left {BA, LA), and their point of 

 junction the angle or elbow. One of the arms is either decorated 

 or has a panel ; the ends of both may be fluted, while their general 

 form tapers more or less uniformly. One or both arms may have 

 a groove on the outside called the sulcus (.y), which, when situated 

 on the paneled arm, extends lengthwise from the panel border to 



