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form the Porto Eico or Santo Domingo type. While the provenance 

 of this specimen may be doubtful, its presence in a Danish island 

 would not be unexpected, if the Porto Rico-Santo Domingo culture 

 areas embrace also the islands of St. Thomas, Santa Cruz, and 

 San Juan. 



The St. Thomas pestle (pi. 114, A) has a well-developed disk, a 

 thick handle, and a prominent ferrule, the tip of the handle being 

 sculptured into a head with protruding lower jaw, sunken eyes, and 

 prominent eyebrows marked with a fillet, which ends in slightly 

 developed ears after arching over the 

 forehead. 



As this specimen is the only one of 

 its form described from St. Thomas, the 

 author suspects that it was brought 

 there from Santo Domingo. The Poito 

 Eico pestles are generally destitute of 

 carved heads on the handle. 



Plate 114, B, shows front and side 

 views of a pestle from Haiti in the Ber- 

 lin Museum. This specimen shows 

 characteristics of the Santo Domingo 

 type, the most marked of which is the 

 presen?e of a ferrule at tl)c point where 

 the handle joins the enlarged lenticular 

 base. The surface of the base is con- 

 vex; the diameter of the handle at its 

 union with the base is less than midway 

 in its length. The end of the handle is 

 enlarged, bearing a carved imitation of 

 a human head, body, and retracted 

 legs. 



A pestle somewhat better sculptured 

 than that last mentioned was found in 

 Haiti and is now in the Berlin Museum. 



Its essential features are seen in jDlate 114, C. The resemblance of the 

 head to that of a human being is better than that just described, and 

 the limbs are more skillfully carved. Both of these pestles are in- 

 ferior to some of those in the Merino collection, elsewhere de- 

 scribed."' 



Quite inferior in sculpture to the pestle in the Merino collection 

 from Santo Domingo or those in the Berlin Museum, above described, 

 is one in the Heye Museum, figured in plate 11.5, .1. This specimen 

 is somewhat smaller than the preceding, differing from it in the 



Fig. 56.- 

 shaped 

 inches.) 



Problematical object 

 like a pestle. (3.5 



"Aborigines of Porto Rico, 25th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn. 



