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and correctly drawn— those indeed who are familiar with the 

 eland speak of this as a perfect representation. 



In the next figure (fig. 7)' the five .birds to the left represent 

 real ostriches ; that which seems to be one on the right is a 

 Bushman !disguised as an 'ostrich ; the extended bow betrays 

 him. The colours in this are not so nicely graduated as in the 

 preceding, but it is a good picture, the outlines are well drawn, 

 the attitudes of the birds true to life, and the grouping is 

 extremely skilful. A Solutrian could scarcely have done 

 better. 



There are obvious differences between the Solutrian and the 

 Bushmen paintings : in the latter the various figures are not 

 thrown on to the wall in a disorderly crowd, but are grouped 

 together into a picture, which tells a tale of its own ; neither is 

 the human figure excluded — on the contrary it often plays a pre- 

 dominant role. At the same time the differences are outweighed 

 by the similarity, the technique is much the same, there is the 

 same realistic truth, and the same quality of movement in the 

 animal forms. Certainly of all existing hunting tribes the Bush- 

 men make the closest approach in their art to that of the Solutrian 

 age. This at least may be affirmed. If we assume as a working 

 hypothesis a close alliance between these two schools of 

 painting, can we advance a step farther and assume that the 

 Bushmen and the Solutrian race are closely connected by blood? 

 By no means. We cannot argue from identity of cult to identity 

 of race ; the error of the philologist in, treating a communicable 

 character as an inborn gift has caused trouble enough in this 

 respect, and we cannot be sufficiently^on our guard against it. 

 But there is no reason why we should not continue our inquiry, 

 and as a next step seek for evidence of another kind, this time 

 anatomical. If we attentively examine the Bushmen as they are 

 represented in their paintings, we shall perceive a peculiarity in 

 their outline, owing to that excessive development of one feature 

 which is known as steatopygy. Direct observation of existing 

 Bushmen shows them to be steatopygous (fig. 8); the Hottentots 

 are still more so. In the women of these races this character is 

 associated with another, that is, a remarkable elongation of the 

 Labice minorce, so that they are sometimes spoken of as longinymph. 

 European women are sometimes longinymph, but not steato- 

 pygous ; the association of these two characters is peculiar to the 

 Bushmen, Hottentots, and perhaps the Accas. The greater the 



