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carved on the posterior as well us on the anterior extremity. 

 This specimen also bears exceptional incised markings on the 

 anterior and posterior slope of the conical process. They are 

 evidently decorative and have grooves extending from the apex 

 a little to one side of the median line of the cone. From these 

 arise 7 short parallel lines on one side and 10 on the opposite. These 

 lateral grooves arising on the same side of the longitudinal line ap- 

 parently have no reference to the position of the conoid projection 

 between them. They extend toward, but do not join, other longi- 

 tudinal scratches not very clearly indicated. If the whole figure 

 could be made out we would probably find it to consist of two ir- 

 regular rectangular designs crowned by a number of parallel lines, 

 the two figures separated at their narrow sides by the conical eleva- 

 tion, but what was intended to be represented by these areas and 

 parallel lines is not wholly clear. 



The most exceptional feature of this three-pointed idol is its bi- 

 cephalism, a head being found on each end. The structure of the 

 forehead is also exceptional, for it would appear that representations 

 of a pair of limbs had been crowded into the area just above the 

 eyes on each side of the circular pit which marks the middle of the 

 forehead. 



If we interpret the parts back of the eyes as arms or legs it 

 would appear that the figure is kneeling, the knees being pointed 

 forward and ending just back of the nose in claws that embrace the 

 circular figure in the middle line; but it should be mentioned that 

 the representations of claws, fingers, or toes are indistinct and the 

 appendages are somewhat problematical. Back of these so-called 

 folded leglike appendages there exists a rounded ridge on the side 

 of a groove, plainly showing indications of a place of attachment by 

 a cord that may have bound the idol to a foreign object. 



The three-pointed idol shown in plate 105, 5, belongs to the first 

 type, or those with head on the anterior and legs on the posterior 

 point; but although its form is somewhat different from any pre- 

 viously known, the essential structures are not very clear. The eyes 

 appear to bulge from the sides of the head, while the nostrils are 

 represented by pits mounted on papillae like those of reptiles. The 

 head is not relatively as long as that of the majority of three-pointed 

 stones representing reptiles, but the mouth is large and extends back- 

 ward rather than transversely, as is usually the case in stone rep- 

 resentations of these animals. 



The essential feature of the three-pointed stone, plate 105, C, also 

 from the Trocadero Museum (Pinart collection), is the two pairs 

 of circular pits, surrounded by ridges in high relief, engraved on 

 the sides of the conoid projection. These appear to be separated 

 from each other bv another ridge extending from the point of the 



