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The Stone object (pi. 100, L\ D) shown from side and top reminds 

 one of the bird-shaped ceremonial baton. This object was evidently 

 so fashioned as to be held in the hand by the pointed end, the carved 

 portion being held aloft. Its shape is similar to the bird-formed 

 baton from Arecibo, Porto Rico, above mentioned. The Heye speci- 

 men is distinf;iiished from the latter by a double row of rounded pro- 

 jections, regularl}' arranged one row on each side of a median 

 groove, running along the enlarged end of the baton. It is probable 

 that it was carried in the hand. The specimen is 6i inches long by 

 ■4 inches wide at its broadest end, tapering to a point at the opposite 

 extremity. 



Elongated stone ceremonial batons with figures cut on one end and 

 enlargements at the other have been reported from several West 

 Indian islands, but the author knows no specimen of quite the same 

 form as that figured in plate 100, (\ D. 



THREE-POINTED STONES 



The group of stone objects known as three-pointed stones, also 

 called zemis and mammiform stones, is confined to Porto Rico and 

 Santo Domingo. These objects may be divided into the following 

 groups: (1) Those with head on the anterior end: (2) those with 

 head on the anterior side of the conoid projection; (3) those with 

 conoid projection modified into a head; (4) those without head or 

 face cut upon them."" The Heye collection contains one specimen 

 with features of both the first and second groups, and one referred 

 to the fourth group, which in place of an engraved head has an 

 incised circle on both anterior and posterior ends. 



First Type of Three-pointed Stones 



It is possible to still further divide the first group of three-pointed 

 stones into four subdivisions: (1) Those with human heads (fig. 50) ; 

 (2) those with reptilian or mammalian heads; (3) those with bird 

 heads; (4) heads of nondescript animals. A single specimen of the 

 first subgroup has a head on the posterior as well as the anterior 

 end, but as a rule the jDosterior end of stones of this type has a pair 

 of limbs cut upon it. A specimen (pi. 101, .1) from the Hej'e Museum 

 has a superficial feature on the cone, hitherto undescribed. Two cir- 

 cular pits or depressions occur on each side of this projection, each 

 surrounded on the lower half by an incised line, which is connected 

 by an incised line with the edge of the base.'"' 



•* An aberrant form of the fourth subgroup occurs also in the St. Vincent-Grenad.-i 



region, I)ut with this exception — three-pointed stone idols are not found outside the Santo 

 Dominpo-Porto Rico area. 



•^^ A similar pair of pits is figured in another specimen in AI)oriiriii<\.; el' i'orlo nice. 

 Twenty-fifth Ann. Rept. Bur. .Vnier. Elhn., pis. xxxvil, a; xxxix, c; XLI, b ; and xLiii, c. 



