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that these parts of the body also were hairy. Sketches of 

 several other naked human figures are known — as, for instance, 

 the femme an renne from Laugerie basse, which again shows 

 indications of a growth of hair over the thighs and abdomen. 

 A broken arrow-straightener from La Madeleine bears a sketch 

 of a standing human figure, evidently naked ; it is diagrammatic, 

 but faithful, and shows a complete absence of any tendency to 

 steatopygy. The profile of a man-like form found at Mas d'Azil 

 is distinguished by such an extraordinary projecting face that 

 Piette thought it might represent an anthropomorphic ape ; it 

 has a projecting muzzle not unlike that which we may attribute 



Fig. 4. — Reindeer and Salmon incised on a piece of horn from Lorthet. 



to Neandertal man, but is without any other features of re- 

 semblance. A human face with very oblique eyes cut on a 

 piece of reindeer's horn found in the cave of Rochebertier recalls 

 the faces which figure on the doorposts of some of the houses 

 of the North American Indians. Of the remaining animal forms 

 which find representation we may mention the ibex, seals, 

 geese, trout, pike, and salmon. An admirable drawing of 

 salmon, in various attitudes, lazily disporting themselves in the 

 water, is reproduced in the illustration (fig. 4). 



The sculptures in bone and ivory afford some of the finest 

 examples of Magdalenian art ; the bone dagger from Laugerie 

 basse, with its lifelike rendering of the reindeer, artistically 

 adapted to form the handle, is a famous example. The same 



