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were found, and he mentions the rock shelters of Bruniquel (Tarn et 

 Garonne), Le Chaffant (Vienne), and the caverns of Massat (Ariege), 

 Les Eyzies (Dordogne), Mont Saleve (Geneva, Switzerland), and 

 Schussenried (Wurtemburg), as having them. 



Fig. 34 is an important and inter- 

 esting specimen of these batons de 

 commandcment of reindeer horn. Tlie 

 two figures represent the opposite 

 sides of the same piece. They are, 

 however, turned end for end, and were 

 discovered in 1886 in the Grotto of 

 Montgaudier, not far from Angou- 

 leme, in the valley of the Eiver Tar- 

 doire (Charente), near the western 

 I coast of France, by M. Paignou, who 

 I worked in company with M. Albert 

 ^., Gaudry. The archipologic stratum 

 i contained another engraved boue, 

 4 bone needles, polishers, an ivory 

 I point, scrapers, and a magnificent 

 £ Solutreen leaf-shaped blade. 

 I M. Gaudry, the eminent paleon- 

 ? tologist of the Museum of Natural 

 I History, Paris, received this baton 

 ^ de commandement and it is now dis- 

 I played in the museum. He made an 

 ^ extended description of the object 

 I before the Academy of France in 

 I July, 1886. In November he con- 

 p tinned the account of his excavations 

 f in this grotto, and reported what he 

 I found in the lower strata— speci- 

 mens of bones of the Rhinoceros 

 tichorhinus, corresponding to and 

 contemporaneous with the Mouste- 

 rien epoch. Below this baton de com- 

 numdement, in the same stratum and 

 associated with it, were bone jioints 

 and a barbed harpoon, so M. Gaudry 

 concludes that the stratum contain- 

 ing this baton was subsequentto the 

 epoch of Moustier and contempora- 

 neous with the cavern of Chauffaud, in the same neighborhood. He 

 says of this specimen : 



It is made of reindeer horn and is pierced with a large hole at the end. It is covered 

 with engravings which show the certainty of the artist's miud and the sentiment of 



