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under discussion, which were among a number of archeological speci- 

 mens from Porto Rico. The writer wishes to express his indebtedness 

 to Dr P. E. Goddard of the American Museum of Natural History 

 for photographs of the two Porto Rican amulets, to Mr C. W. Mead 

 of the same Museum for particulars regarding them, and to Mr L. P. 

 Gratacap, also of the American Museum, for the identification of the 

 stone from which the amulets described in this paper were manufac- 

 tured. In addition to the six amulets referred to there is in the 

 museum of the Hispanic Society of America, in New York City, an 

 amulet of the same type, and the writer tenders his thanks to that 

 Society for permission to introduce an illustration of the specimen 

 and for information concerning it. The eighth specimen of this class 

 belongs to Mr A. M. Archer, of New York City, who kindly lent it 

 to the writer for photographing and also afforded such scant informa- 

 tion as was available concerning the object. Aside from the eight 

 amulets discussed and illustrated in this paper, the writer knows of 

 no others of the same type amongst the great number of West Indian 

 amulets in various scientific institutions and private collections. 



A number of years ago, while the writer was conducting archeo- 

 logical investigations in the Caicos islands, he heard of a stone amulet 

 that had been found by a negro on North Caicos island and sold by 

 the finder to Mr W. Stanley Jones, a resident of Grand Turk, one of 

 the Turks islands. This specimen, illustrated in plate I of the present 

 paper, was described briefly by the writer in 1912 in his "Lucayan 

 Remains on the Caicos Islands," 1 in which it is stated: 



Some years ago a very interesting stone idol was found in the neighborhood 

 of the Kew settlement. Plate VI shows three views of this idol which I was not 

 able to acquire and for the photograph of which I am indebted to Mr J. S. 

 Cameron, owner of the East Caicos Sisal plantation. It is curious to note the 

 pierced ears and the manner in which the feather head-dress is represented. 



The writer at the time omitted to mention the size of this object 

 and a number of other interesting facts concerning it. In 1913 the 

 Museum of the American Indian procured the specimen from Mr 

 Jones, and its collections were thereby enriched by the addition of 

 what is perhaps the finest example of Antillean stone carving known. 



In 1913, during a sojourn on the island of Santo Domingo in the 

 interest of the Museum of the American Indian, the writer examined 

 an amulet in possession of Prof. Rodolfo Cambiaso, of Santo Domingo 

 City (whose collection from Hayti and Santo Domingo is perhaps 

 the best on the island), which, while far smaller than that from North 



1 Booy, Theodoor de, Lucayan Remains on the Caicos Islands, American Anthropologist, N. S., 

 vol. xiv, no. I, Jan.-Mar. 1912, pp. 81-105. 



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