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AN ANALYSIS OF THE 



In Mr. Gabb's collection of fragments of San Domingo pottery already mentioned, 



occurs the following : 



Fio-. 179. 



Front. Profile. 



This has been denominated by Mr. G. and others, a "bird head." "We, however, 

 conclude from associated fragments that it was not a bird head but a variant of a 

 monkey head, thus :* 



Fig. 180. 



Section YIL Method of studying Hock Inscriptions and Pictograj^lis. Appljdng 



* For rather free identification of Polynesian forms, see the liieroglyphics of Easter Island, Journal Anthro- 

 pological Institute of London, III, 370, pi. 20. 



