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from Porto Rico). Balboa's interview with Tumaco, who molded a figure of a 

 lama in clay, should be recalled here as suggesting Isthmian intercourse with the 

 far south. Of the ties that bind Chiriqui to the southern continent, the strongest 

 hitherto revealed are linguistic. 



With due allowance for the influences radiating from the great civilizations to 

 the north and the south, the results of the present study point to the forces from 

 within rather than to those from without, as being the chief factors in the devel- 

 opment of Chiriquian culture, which contains many elements of fundamental 

 importance to a complete history of primitive art. 



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