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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.)
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1895-1964
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
Type : texte,publication en série imprimée
Langue : Anglais
Format : application/pdf
Identifiant : ark:/12148/cb37575968z/date
Identifiant : ISSN 0097269X
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France
Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z
Description : Périodicité : Annuel
Description : Etat de collection : n. 1 (1879)-n. 48 (1931)
Provenance : bnf.fr
Date de mise en ligne : 12/01/2009
1903 (N25)-1904. Note : Index.
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10~ THE ABORIGINES OF PORTO RICO [ETn.ANN.25
A ruder specimen (figure 8) of somewhat the same type but smaller.
exhibited in the Madrid Exposition, was said to have been obtained in
Santo Domingo. Its base is Bat, rounded, and girt by a bead, as in the
i~ ~ï.T.ï rr' ~i ~c ·
specimen last described. The head of an animal is
carved on the handle. While this object may bave
been used as a pestle, its form suggests an idol; but it
belongs to thé general type of stone pestles, already
mentioned.
Plate xxrv, g, is a long-handled pestle with rounded
lens and ferrule in low relief. Its handle tapers
gradually from the ferrule to the image at the end,
which represents a human being with legs and with
slight projections for ears and a,rms.
Specimen À is a pestle with a broken lens and a well-
cut figure on the end of a short bandie. The fore
limbs in this specimen are raised in such a way that
the hands appear to be placed behind the back just at
the neck.
Specimen i, j is a pestle, the tip of the handle being
decorated with an obscurely made figure. This speci-
men has a smooth surface which shows much-pecking
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and may be an unfinished idol. =
The accompanying eut (figure 9), representing a pestle in Mr Yung-
hannis's collection at Bayamon, Porto Rico, was
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from Santo Do- i
mingo.
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made from one of the author's sketches. The sur-
face of the original is rough, the base oval and
smooth, the eyes and ears being represented
by pits, while parallel curved grooves suggest
appendages.
Many pestles of simple forms are shown on
plate xxv, one of which (&) is long and club-
shaped, having a head rudely carved on one end
of the handle. There is no lens or enlargement
at the opposite extremity, where, however, the
diameter is somewhat greater than at the head.
The remaining figures on this plate are thé simplest
forms of pestles, or possibly pigment grinders.
In specimens b and e no differentiation indicative
of a handle is visible, while in d the neck is a sim-
ple contraction below the head, the whole face
being occupied by two depressions or owl-like
eyes. The specimen designated e is a broken pestle
Fie. 9. Pestle from Porto
Rico.
eyes. jLtie spécimen aesignatea e is a. orpKen pesue
with an animal body and f represents a very simple, rough paint
grinder, destitute of the carved head. The remaining specimens (g-i)
are simple paint grinders.
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