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the carved face, so that there is nothing on this arm corresponcl- 

 ing to a ferriiled end. On the forehead of the figure may be seen 

 a triangular area in which is a central pit. The head is fringed 

 by a fillet less elaborately made than that of the Madrid speci- 

 men. The end of the small arm appears to have been broken, 

 there being no sign of fluting, although it shows indications of 

 a sulcus. On the outer side of the small arm, near the angle, 

 there are two series of parallel lines, or chevrons, cut in the sur- 

 face, recalling the decoration of a massive collar elsewhere figured. 



" In order to compare this elbow stone with certain stone heads 

 figured by the author in his Aborigines of Porto Kico (pis. li, 

 Lii, Liii), we may suppose that the two arms are much reduced 

 in length, as in jalate lii here referred to, and the face cut in 

 high relief instead of being low or flat. A still further reduction 

 in the homologues of the arms appears in certain stone heads and 

 in stone disks with faces illustrated in the plates mentioned, in 

 some instances all traces of the arms having disappeared. The 

 stone head shown in plate liv, a-, a' has the neck develojied into 

 a short handle, giving the appearance of a baton and recalling 

 certain ceremonial celts. The objects called 'stone heads' in the 

 author's work above cited so closely resemble three-pointed stones 

 that they may be allied to the third type of zemis, in which the 

 conoid projection is modified into a head. A like parallel occurs 

 in the first type of throe-pointed stones, the heads of which recall 

 those of men, lizards, and birds. The few known specimens of the 

 second type have human faces. 



" The figures representing lizards in both the first and the third 

 type of three-pointed stones are characterized by elongated snouts, 

 eyes, and two pits, representing nostrils, placed near the extremity 

 of the upper lip. The human faces of the first type generally 

 have the ornamented fillet reaching from ear to ear, which is never 

 represented in reptilian three-pointed stones of the first type, but 

 is present in reptile figures in the third type. Ears appear in 

 human but never in bird or reptilian forms. In place of a depres- 

 sion or i^it in the median line of the headband, the reptilian figures 

 of the third type have a device consisting of a low convex pro- 

 jection and pit of the first form. This last-mentioned feature is 

 sometimes situated in a fold extending downward over the fore- 

 head, suggesting a frontal ornament. 



"3. Lathner specimen. — This elbow stone [fig. 49] was first fig- 

 ured by Prof. O. T. Mason, who regarded it as a part of a collar, 

 and afterwards by the author, who founded the type now known as 

 elbow stones upon its characteristics. Although the form of the 

 Latimer ell)0w stone is somewhat aberrant in several particulars, it 

 presents the distinctive features of the type. Its arms are ap- 



