216 ISLAND CULTURE AREA OF AMEKICA [eth. ann.si 



Perhaps the most exceptional feature of this object is the curved 

 base, instead of flat, ending on each side in the pointed rim shown 

 on the side. This base has a median circular depression about mid- 

 way in its length. The lower lip extends forward and is curved 

 upward, the mouth impression being a deep-cut groove. 



The sjiecimen shown in plate 108, B^ belongs to the first tj'pe of 

 three-pointed stones, and is remarkable in the position and shape of the 

 mouth, which is turned upward instead of being horizontal, as is 

 usually the case. The specimen was collected by Mr. de Booy in 

 Santo Domingo. 



Second Type of Three-Pointed Stones 



The only specimen of the second type of three-pointed stones, or 

 that with a face on the side of the conical projection, in the Ileye 

 collection is the form, plate 108, C, which ajjpears never to have 

 been finished. The position of the eyes is indicated by a depres- 

 sion, and there is a slight bridgelike elevation representing lips. 

 The cone is low, its apex bent forward. 



Specimens of these stones are not very conunon, and as a rule come' 

 from Santo Domingo. 



Although pointed stones of the second type are so rare in Antil- 

 lean collections, Mr. de Booy has added another to those already 

 known. This specimen, like most of the others, was collected in 

 Santo Domingo and resembles that figured on plate xlvii in Abo- 

 i-igines of Porto Eico. Like this specimen it has a pit on the sur- 

 face of the conical projection, opposite the eyes, surrounded by an 

 incised ring, around which are three lines of a triangular incised 

 figure. In th'e published figure the ear has the form of the figure 6, 

 but in this specimen the ear is a circle. The lower jaw of the speci- 

 men collected by Mr. de Booy is more pronounced than in any of 

 the three-pointed stones of the second type yet described. 



In a collection of Porto Rican antiquities presented to the National 

 Museimi by Miss B. A. Gould and described by the author"* there 

 are several instructive three-pointed stones — one of the first, two of 

 tlie second, and one of the fourth type — which so far as known are 

 unique. They are referred to as follows in the article above quoted: 



" Specimens of the type in whicli a face is carved on one side of the 

 conoid projection, or between its apex ami the anterior projection, are 

 much less abundant than those of the first type in Porto Eican col- 

 lections. Only five zemis of this kind are described in the author's 

 memoir, and the majority of these came from Santo Domingo."" 



«* Further notes on the Archeology of Porto Rico, Amer. .\nthrop.. n. s., vol. x. No. 4, 

 1908. 



"' The second type was originally distinguished from the first in the memoir above men- 

 tioned. The author has seen no representations of this type in other publications. A 

 similar method of representing joints Iiy incised circles is found in many Central 

 American figures, and in Mexican bas-reliefs. 



