. Porto Rican coude-pierres dans le musée Heye, avec la discussion d'objets similaires ailleurs; . ecular à la région de la culture Porto Rico-Haïti, et whuntrouvé ailleurs dans les Indes occidentales sont censés avoir bénintroduit. 1 Antiquités préhistoriques des Antilles dans le British Museum, Jour. Roy.Antr. Inst., vol.xxxvn, pp. 402-419, 1907. 2 UNE forme particulière de pierres à trois pointes de Carriacou, une des Grenadines, maintenant dans le Musée Heye, sera décrite plus tard. 3 la Trinité-et-Tobago appartient au continent voisin sur le plan culturel, géographique et biologique. FEWKES] PORTO RICA

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. Porto Rican elbow-stones in the Heye museum, with discussion of similar objects elsewhere; . eculiar to the Porto Rico-Haiti culture area, and whenfound elsewhere in the West Indies are believed to have beenintroduced. 1 Prehistoric Antiquities from the Antilles in the British Museum, Jour. Roy.Anthr. Inst., vol.xxxvn, pp. 402-419, 1907. 2 A peculiar form of three-pointed stones from Carriacou, one of the Grenadines, now in the Heye Museum, will be described later. 3 Trinidad and Tobago belong culturally, as well as geographically and biologically, to the adjacent continent. FEWKES] PORTO RICAN ELBOW-STONES 437 Since the three types of Antillean stone objects above mentionedare closely connected, both culturally and geographically, they arelogically considered as related, and in order to understand the sig-nificance of elbow-stones a more accurate knowledge of the collarsis desirable. The variety of forms and the distribution and character of super-ficial ornamentation of typical Porto Rican collars have been indi-cated in the authors work, Aborigines of Porto Rico, 1 and in the. Fig. 116.—Schematic drawing of a slender, oblique stone collar. accompanying illustration (fig. n 6) from that report the topographyof the surface ornamentation of one of these collars is indicated.Comparison of an elbow-stone (fig. 117) with a broken stonecollar shows that the two have the so-called boss (b) and the un-derrated panel (up) in common. On the other hand, the de-corated panel (dp), shoulder (s), shoulder band (sb), and projection(p) are not found in elbow-stones. An arm with decoration exists in 1 Twenty-fifth Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1907. 438 AMERICAX AXTHROPOLOGIST [s. s., 15, 1913 RA the elbow-stone, but when figures are cut in relief on it they arequite unlike those on the decorated panels of collars. The armsof the two types on which the decorations appear are not identical, and the ends of the two arms of the elbow-stones may be fluted or

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