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people : that in use among the Fuegians is simpler and ruder 

 in form ; but it is by no means certain that the Fuegians 

 should be omitted from this comparison. 



The spear-thrower is common to the Magdalenians, Eskimo, 

 Indians, and many other races, including the Australians, and 

 thus does not count for much ; nor should we omit to point 

 out that the form of the Magdalenian implement is very differ- 

 ent from that of the Eskimo. 



The sculpture of figures in the round presents many 

 remarkable analogies, the reindeer, mammoth and musk-ox of 

 the Magdalenians finding parallels in the whales, seals, and 

 bears of the Eskimo, though on the ground of art superiority 

 must be allowed to the more ancient race. The same is true 

 of the line-engravings, with which both adorned their imple- 

 ments. The Magdalenian sketches are always the more realistic, 

 the Eskimo the more conventional. There is also a difference 



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Fig. 5.— Drawings on Eskimo bow-drills. 



On the left a man gathering berries, in the middle two boys playing football, on the right hunter 



quarrelling over the possession of game. 



in motive. The Magdalenian artist was an artist for pure love 

 of art — he took pleasure in the graceful form and attitudes of 

 the reindeer and delighted in representing it ; the Eskimo, on 

 the other hand, is more interested in story-telling, his drawings 

 show a strong tendency towards picture writing, and almost 

 achieve it (fig. 5). The difference will be perceived at a glance 

 on comparing the well-known figure of a feeding reindeer from 

 the Kesslerloch, near Thaingen, with the drawings engraved on 

 an Eskimo arrow-straightener preserved in the British Museum 

 and represented by Prof. Boyd Dawkins in Cave Hunters, p. 354. 

 In the one our admiration is aroused by the truthful outline and 

 artistic feeling of the sketch ; in the other our pleasure is less 

 aesthetic but perhaps more intellectual : we are impressed by 

 the skill with which the animals are generalised — the detail is 

 as sparing as in Egyptian hieroglyphs and the symbolisation is 

 just as correct — but our chief interest is in the event which the 

 drawing records. In the one case the object of the drawing 



