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contains several interesting objects, descriptions and figures of 

 which have not been published. Dr. Montane has kindly shown 

 me many photographs and charts illustrating his explorations, and 

 has courteously permitted me to photograph some of the more 

 striking objects, including a stone collar from Porto Rico.'^ The 

 majority of the archeological specimens came from the eastern end 

 of the island and closely resemble in technique those from I'orto 

 Eico. Among the objects seen in these two collections are 10 pet- 

 aloid celts in the academy museum and about double that number 

 at the university. One of those in the latter collection has a stone 

 handle like those obtained by me in 1903 in Santo Doiaingo. 

 There is also a celt with a face cut on one side — evidently a cere- 

 monial celt like one in Archbishop jNIerino's collection. This like- 

 wise is a product of Tainan culture, as is the stone pestle with a 

 well-fashioned head on the end of the handle. 



The three choicest specimens in Dr. Montane's collection are a 

 wooden idol, a stone turtle, and a shell with a face cut on one side. 

 The wooden idol has a perforation, as if for attachment to a staff, 

 and may have been used in ceremonial dances like those of the 

 Salivas and other Orinoco tribes described by (lumilla.^" The turtle 

 of stone recalls one of wood collected by Ober in a cave in St. 

 Vincent in 1878 and now in the Smithsonian collection, but, unlike 

 it, the latter is not perforated for attachment. An account of these 

 objects in the university museum, with localities and figures, would 

 increase our knowledge of the archeology of Cuba. 



In the Santiago museum were two idols made of coral rock, one 

 (fig. 64) of which, according to the label, is from Cueva de Boruga, 

 near Baracoa, the other (fig. 65),^' which is smaller, from the Loma 

 del Cayuco, Gibara. The former was loaned to Prof. W J McGee, 

 Ethnologist in Charge of the Bureau of American EthnologT, by 

 Sehor Quesada in 1900, at which time Mr. DeLancey Gill made 

 front and profile photographs of the specimen. This idol represents 

 a seated figure, with elbows on the Imees and hands to the breast. 

 Its whole appearance is different from that of any West Indian idol 

 that I have ever seen." 



The smaller idol, also of coral rock, shows the septa of indi- 

 vidual coral animals scattered over the surface, and has the form 



"5 The idol presented by Seiior Ferrer (fig. 66) is historically the most interesting' iu 

 tliis (.■oUection. 



>« El Orinoco, ilustrado y dufciidiilo, Madrid. 1745. 



" Prehistoric Culture of Cuba, Amer. Anthrop., n. s. vol. 6, No. 5, 1904. 



"■ The exceptional form of this idol, when compared with those from Santo Domingo 

 and Porto Eico, may lead some archeologists to doubt its authenticity. The form of the 

 mouth, however, is almost identical with that of the head of a pestle from Santo 

 Domingo, and the attitude recalls that of the wooden idol in the university museum at 

 Habana. 



