placed there is a stone crocodile to the right and
left in front of a stone block artificially rounded and set on
end. These vary but little in shape between a drop and an egg or
onion, always inclining toward the first, so that I would like to
call them 'drop stones,' ... before such of these drop stones,
the more oval of which is twenty-four, and the more conical one
nineteen and a quarter inches high, there is a crocodile. The
larger and better finished of the two is twenty-four and three
eighths and the other twenty-one and a quarter inches long."[25]

Frobenius further states that he had seen several other similar
objects, made both of quartz granite and of other kinds of stone. In
another sacred grove he reports finding several other very interesting
stone objects:

"Here within a small space surrounded by a low wall there is a
ring of holy stones," he writes, "some of them very valuable.
Firstly, there is a twenty-nine and a half inch long sandstone
block of no very remarkable general aspect, weather-worn and
abraded, but ending in a jagged crowned head of some such animal
as a fish. The second is a block of quartz, like the drum of a
column, damaged in places by exposure, but still recognizable as
a fine piece of antique work."

Finally, we come to what Frobenius calls the stone "stools," of which
"there are quite a number." According to Frobenius, these stools very
much resemble the stools made and used by the present-day Negroes and
remind one of "negro stools with carriers." He says further:

"These are stumpy columns from fourteen to twenty-four inches
high. Sometimes the flat surfaces have a ring between them and
sometimes not. Both quartz and granite examples are characterized
by extraordinary uniformity of shape and surface polish. Their
single handles at the side, mostly broken off, is the strangest
part."

Frobenius comments especially upon the tendency of these objects to
"monumental form." In this connection he says:

"Following the lines of everything taught us in the development
of historical art, I can not well help drawing the inference that
this idea of working in stone was introduced by a people who felt
themselves impelled to monumental expression."[26]

The origin and variety of these carved objects in stone offer us a
very interesting point, yet one may re