On Land and Sea: Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies

List of Figures

4.1. Map of the West Indies 37 5.1. Map of the southern Caribbean region 59 5.2. Queen conch 62 5.3. Green sea turtle 63 5.4. Lignum-vitae wood 65 5.5. Stoplight parrot¤sh 68 5.6. Nassau grouper 69 5.7. T omtate grunt 69 6.1. Map of the Lesser Antilles 76 6.2. West Indian topsnail 84 6.3. Horse-eye jack 90 6.4. Little tunny 90 6.5. Agouti 91 6.6. Sapotaceae seed fragments 91 6.7. Blue land crab 106 7.1. Map of the Greater Antilles and Virgin Islands 115 7.2. Guinea pig 136 7.3. Ceramic representation of a hutía 136 7.4. Carbonized remains of manioc 156 7.5. Carbonized maize kernels 157 7.6. Evening primrose seeds 158 7.7. Trianthema seed 160 7.8. Panicoid grass grain 161 8.1. Map of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos 173 Figures ...