LIST OF ILLUSTEATIOKS. 



PLATES. 



Report of Assistant Seceetary. 



Facing page. 



I. Class microscope ^^ 



2-4. Class microscope •. "' 



Prehistoric Aut; or, the Origin op Art a.s Manifested in the Works of Prehistoric Man. 



By Thomas Wilson. 



Frontispiece. Aboriginal American polished stone hatchet in its original wooden handle 325 



1. Portion of the floor of the prehistoric cavern of Les Eyzies, France 358 



2. Pn lii4oiic station of Cliclles, showing alluvial deposits in the valley of the River Marne, 



19 kilometers east of Paris 360 



3. Rudely chipped quart zito implements of Paleolithic type. District of Columbia 368 



4. Seriesof rudely chipped quartzite implements of Paleolithic type. Mount Vernon, Virginia. 368 



5. Mapof the River Vezere (Dordogne), France, showing settlements in the Paleolithic period.. 369 



6. Perspective view of the cavern of Le Moustier, from the Vezere 370 



7. Mousterien points (Paleolithic), obverse and reverse 370 



8. Mousterien scra])ers (Paleolithic), obverse and reverse 370 



9. Series of Solutreen (Paleolitliic) leaf-shaped blades 371 



10. Notched or barbed Solutr6en (Paleolithic) points 371 



II. Rock ahelter of La Madelaine, River Vezi^re, Dordogne 372 



I'J. rer.sjifctive view and section of the rock shelter of Laugerie Basse, River V6z6re, Dordogne.. 373 



KM.'). Decorative geometric and conventional designs of the Paleolithic period in Europe 377 



IG. Fig. 1. The Lenape stone, a slate gorget, with figure of mammoth or mastodon engraved 



thereon 380 



Fig. 2. Fulgur shell, with figure of mammoth or.mastodon engraved thereon 380 



17. (a) I'erspective view and (b) section of the cavern <if Placard (Charento), France, (c) Sec- 



tion of the ]>rehlstoric cavern of Schweitzerbild, Switzerland 415 



18. Fig. 1. Grouj) of artists of the Chellet-n period engaged in chipping flint implements 417 



Fig. 2. Family of the Madelainien epoch, with representation of the rock shelter of Laiige- 



rie Basse 417 



19. 20. Gcoiuotric decorative designs in use in western Europe during the Neolithic period, some 



of which were continued into the Bronze age 422 



21. Nucleus or core of beeswax flint. Grand Pressigny, France 422 



22. Kudeiis and flake of beeswax flint. Grand Pressigny, France 423 



23. Poniard of flint, finely chipped. Scandinavia 428 



24. Poniards or daggers of flint, finely chipped. Scandinavia 428 



25. Leaf-sliapcrt implement, white flint or chalcedony. Oaxaca, Mexico 428 



'..'6. Large quartzite blade, finely chipped 428 



■J". Five larKe8i)earhead8, chalcedony. Little Missouri River, Pike County, Arkansas 429 



■-'8. ( )l>sidian cores and flakes from Mexico and California 435 



'J'J. Twenty flint objects of curious form, none utilitarian 437 



'■IK Two flint hatchets. Lund, Sweden 442 



!1. Polished stone hatchet and handle combined, worked out of solid rock. Diorite (?) 445 



:J. Three banner stones ( two broken) 449 



'■''.. Gorgets, pendants, and plummets or charms 452 



; I . Series of European prehistoric polished jade hatchets 455 



!.'>. Series of American prehistoric polished jadoite and nephrite hatchets ... 455 



;:•>. Series of polished and grooved actinolite axes and hammers from the Pueblos of New Mex- 

 ico and Arizona 455 



37. Seri.-.s .if polished nephrite axes and adzes (one Pectolite hammer), from Alaska 456 



■M. Series of neiilirite bowlders and fragments thereof from Alaska, discovered by Lieutenant 



Stoney, United Stales Navy 45g 



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