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Caicos, bears a marked type resemblance to it. Professor Cambiaso 

 informed the writer that he had procured the amulet in the Cibao 

 mountain region of the province of Santo Domingo. This specimen 

 also was acquired for the Museum of the American Indian, and is 

 illustrated in plate III, g, of this paper. 



In 1914, during another stay on the island of Santo Domingo, the 

 writer's attention was drawn to still another amulet of a type so 

 similar to the one from Caicos island that he procured it from its 

 owner, Dr Natalio Rodondo. This specimen had previously been im- 

 perfectly figured in the work of its former owner, Dr Narciso Alberti 1 

 (page 142), and is illustrated in plate II, b, of the present paper. 

 Regarding this specimen Dr Alberti states: 



A zemi found in the Vega Real [interior of the Republic of Santo Domingo] 

 has come to my hands, which zemi is the crocodile god: it has the tiara or casket 

 which the Quisqueyanos placed over the heads of their divinities, and at the same 

 time it completely looks like the figure of the Egyptian god Sebak-Ra (the croco- 

 dile). This figure, this Quisqueyano zemi, which was given me by Sefior Carlos M. 

 Sanchez, was found in a gully in which some boys were bathing, and, believing 

 it was a frog, the boys threw stones at it, until it broke in the middle. This was 

 the fate and the finish of the Quisqueyano zemi. 



It may be mentioned that Dr Alberti's work on the history of 

 Quisqueya is an attempt to prove relationship between the Phenicians 

 and Egyptians and the aborigines of Santo Domingo, hence he em- 

 braces the opportunity to attribute some Phenician or Egyptian 

 significance to every object of antiquity that came into his hands. 



The fourth amulet in this series, illustrated in plate ill, h, was 

 found by Mr M. R. Harrington, of the Museum of the American 

 Indian, at Mesa del Sordo in the Baracoa district of the eastern 

 part of Cuba, in 19 15, while conducting archeological investigations. 



The fifth amulet and the sixth (pi. II, c, and ill,/) were acquired in 

 1915 in Porto Rico by Mr J. Alden Mason while making an ethnologi- 

 cal and archeological survey of that island in the interest of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences and the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



The most interesting amulet, historically, is that in the collection 

 of the Hispanic Society of America, illustrated in our plate ill, d. This 

 specimen was presented to that institution by Mr E. Howard Grin- 

 nell, of New York City, who also furnished the information pertaining 

 to it. The amulet was acquired by Washington Irving in Spain while 

 ambassador to that country in 1842-46, and was probably taken to 



1 Alberti, Narciso, Apuntes para la Prehistoria de Quisqueya, La Vega, Dominican Republic, 

 1912. 



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