. Porto Rican elbow-stones in the Heye museum, with discussion of similar objects elsewhere; . [Reprinted from the American Anthropologist, Vol. 15, No. 3, July-Sept., 1913.] PORTO RICAN ELBOW-STONES IN THE HEYE MUSEUM, WITH DISCUSSION OF SIMILAR OBJECTS ELSEWHERE By J. WALTER FEWKESIntroduction MANY prehistoric stone objects found in Porto Rico havetaxed the ability of archeologists to explain and havefurnished the theorist with abundant material for specu-lation. Among these may be mentioned three-pointed idols, bothwith and without animal or human heads. Other forms, from theirresemblance t
. Porto Rican elbow-stones in the Heye museum, with discussion of similar objects elsewhere; . [Reprinted from the American Anthropologist, Vol. 15, No. 3, July-Sept., 1913.] PORTO RICAN ELBOW-STONES IN THE HEYE MUSEUM, WITH DISCUSSION OF SIMILAR OBJECTS ELSEWHERE By J. WALTER FEWKESIntroduction MANY prehistoric stone objects found in Porto Rico havetaxed the ability of archeologists to explain and havefurnished the theorist with abundant material for specu-lation. Among these may be mentioned three-pointed idols, bothwith and without animal or human heads. Other forms, from theirresemblance to horse-collars, have from the first been designatedas collars or collar-stones. Those prehistoric Porto Rican stoneobjects that, from their shape, are called elbow-stones, are theleast known and apparently one of the most enigmatical splendid Antillean collection of George G. Heye, Esq., ofNew York, contains undescribed examples of all these problematicalobjects, and of these the three elbow-stones here described for thefirst time are among the most important. Elbow-stones resem
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