The Stone Ayes of South Africa. 201 



standing together, proclaim loudly to the boys the amplitude of their 

 secret charm.* 



That the " tablier hottentot " is not confined to the South African 

 relics of the San only is thereby proved ; but one is inclined to come 

 to the conclusion that, when found to occur in another race, this 

 character has been transmitted by a San race having come in contact 

 with another, or others, Hamitic or Negro, or perhaps both. 



Another physical peculiarity of the Bush-Hottentot — but of man 

 this time, and one which is comparatively very little known — is that 

 the penis is normally carried horizontally and, in some young subjects, 

 in a semi- vertical or even vertical position. This fact was known to 

 the old Colonists who were acquainted with the Bush people. In 

 fact, according to some who gave me the information some thirty 

 years ago, the purity of the race was denoted by the angle at which 

 the penis stood normally. Prison w^arders have assured me that 

 such is the case, and this is corroborated by the photographs which 

 we took of eight men, probably as pure bred as any now left. 



Singular as these peculiarities are, the Aborigines of the Hottentot- 

 Bush races have recorded them in the artistic productions they have 

 left behind in the shape of rock-graving and paintings, productions 

 which we know to be associated with the Stone Age or Ages of South 

 Africa. 



In scenes graved on rocks, when the human form is represented 

 the technique is so primitive that, were it not for the phallus, always 

 out of proportion to the size of the image, it would be impossible to 

 recognise the sex. The phallus is, in all the cases known to me,f 

 carried in a semi-vertical position or at a high angle. In paintings 

 it is the same ; man's genitalia are never hanging when Bush people 

 are delineated. 



In these painted scenes the artist is satisfied to denote the female 

 sex by granting the subject an abundance of steatopygia ; but in 

 one scene, of which we have a tracing (a dance), the woman's 

 longinymphal state is very plainly shown. 



These gravings and paintings are now, it is feared, a lost art. But 

 those who executed them have left behind the records of physical 

 characters which were once essentially typical of, if not restricted to, 

 their race. 



* It has, however, been impossible to tind out if this elongation of the labia is in 

 this instance artificial or natural ; but I have been assured lately that among the 

 natives of North-Western Rhodesia its shape greatly differs from that of Fig. 211. 



t These scenes are rare. I know of four only, and only men are represented. 



