Porto Rican stone collars and tripointed idols . e collars, massive 1 The Latimer Collection of Antiquities from Porto Rico in the NationalMuseum, and The Guesde Collection of Antiquities in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guade-loupe, West Indies; reprint, 1899, p. 385. These articles originally appearedin the Smithsonian Reports for 1876 and 1884 respectively. V FEWKES] PORTO RICAN STONE COLLARS 167 (plate xxi) and slender oblique ovate (plate xxn), differ to suchan extent that it would seem as if their uses were not the same, andthe differences in the symbolic markings on their surfaces wouldimply a differ
Porto Rican stone collars and tripointed idols . e collars, massive 1 The Latimer Collection of Antiquities from Porto Rico in the NationalMuseum, and The Guesde Collection of Antiquities in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guade-loupe, West Indies; reprint, 1899, p. 385. These articles originally appearedin the Smithsonian Reports for 1876 and 1884 respectively. V FEWKES] PORTO RICAN STONE COLLARS 167 (plate xxi) and slender oblique ovate (plate xxn), differ to suchan extent that it would seem as if their uses were not the same, andthe differences in the symbolic markings on their surfaces wouldimply a different interpretation of their meaning: For instance,while the theory that these collars were worn over the neck appliesfairly well to the slender ovate variety, it fails to apply to some ofthe massive forms. Although the latter nlight be regarded as ob-jects of torture or symbols of servitude, this interpretation wouldhardly hold for the slender examples. On the other hand, it cannotbe reasonably claimed that the use and meaning of the two groups. Fig. 20.—Schematic drawing of a slender, oblique stone collar. were different, considering the similarity in their general forms; noris it probable that the massive forms are unfinished specimens of theslender ones, inasmuch as the special superficial symbolic charac-ters of each group are too well defined to suppose that one could bemade out of the other. There are certain regions of both the massive and the slender col-lars which can readily be identified and which for convenience havebeen designated by the following names: b, boss; p, projection; s,shoulder; sb, shoulder ridge; dp, decorated panel; dpb, decorated 168 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS [VOL. 47 panel border; dpg, decorated panel ridge; dpbp, decorated panelborder perforation; up, undecorated panel; upg, undecorated panelpit; upb, undecorated panel border; upr, undecorated panel regions occur in reversed positions in right- and left-handedcollars, and
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