Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A GIFT FROM ECUADOR liii Churl, s IC M,a,l THE collection presented a'ccntly to the Museum \)\ Miv 1). C. Stapleton contains two stone seats found near the Port of Manta, Province of Manal)i, Ecuador. Such stone seats have heen dis- covered in great ntunbers on the summits of Cerro de Hojas, Cerro Jabon- cillo, Cerra .Tu)ia and ("erro Anna, Nuexo and form the most remarkable featinv of the arclia'ology of Manabi, nothing rescmbbng them being known from any otlier ))art of the Americas. The specimens in the various museums of Europe and Amer- ica have come for tlie most part from ("erro de Hojas, found in prehistoric house sites. All of these seats appear to liave been ear\ed from andersite or from argillaceous shaly sandstone — the two presented by Air. Stapleton are of the lattei—and all may be described as T^- shaped, although there is considerable variety in their width and in the curve of the sides. Usually the crouching figure supporting the seat represents a man or a puma, but bird, lizard, bat and monkey-like forms also occur and some specimens have been foimd in which the supports and l)ases are without figures. In addition to the stone seats from Manabi, Air. Stapleton's gift to the Museum includes some thirty specimens from the Pro\ince of Esmeraldas, about one-half of which were excavated from prehistoric burial moinids, the balance coming from the Cayapa Indians who inhabit the province to-day. Of the archieological part of the collection, second to the stone seats in interest are the pottery stamps as showing the status of the ornamental art of this unknown people. In all probability these stamps were used to ornament cf)tton and bai-k cloth. 83
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