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is a reindeer, in the other a reindeer hunt. The hunters, 

 disguised with reindeer horns, are stalking the unsuspecting 

 herd. This difference is essentially similar to that which we 

 have already observed in the case of Solutrian and Bushman 

 art, though the Bushmen have not carried generalisation 

 so far. 



We should perhaps scarcely have expected this order of 

 development, though now that it is suggested good reasons can 

 be found for it. 



Children often display a remarkable aptitude for rough 

 portraiture ; the illustration (fig. 6) records the spontaneous 

 efforts of an untaught English girl at the age of seven or eight. 

 They are admitted by their victims to be excellent caricatures, 

 but the artist showed no signs of unusual ability with her pencil 



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Fig. 6. — Artistic efforts of childhood. 



in later years. A stage of imitative art may thus occur in the 

 childhood both of the individual and the race. 



On a general review of the facts it would appear that, 

 allowing for the long interval which separates the Magdalenian 

 from the Eskimo in time, there is a sufficient degree of similarity 

 between the products of their industry and art to furnish a 

 prima-facie case in favour of an alliance by cult. The evidence 

 is by no means convincing ; and if, proceeding a step further, we 

 begin to speculate on the consanguinity of the two races, we are 

 met with geographical difficulties, not to mention others, which 

 are amply sufficient to justify those who maintain a sceptical 

 attitude. 



There still remains, however, one class of evidence to which 

 as yet we have made no allusion : it is that relating to the 

 bodily characteristics of Magdalenian man. Such of his skeletal 



