DESIGNS OF FISHES, ETC. 



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M. Edouard Dupout has publislied the description and figure of a " baton " 

 with a rough tish-design upon it, which was found in the cave of Goyet, in 

 The illustration is here reproduced as Fig. 35. " It is ornamented 



Belgium 



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Fig. 35. — Tracing of a fish on a baton of reindeer-horn. Cave of Goyet. 



on its borders and on its two faces with incised lines ; I have not yet been able 

 to discover what the ancient engraver intended to represent on one of the faces, 

 because an important part of the design was traced on the lost portion of the 

 object; there are seen lines which cross each other and some hatchings. 



'• The other face shows the figure of a fish, the posterior part of which is 

 wanting on account of the fracture. The dots engraved on the back of the fish 

 would seem to indicate the characteristic spots on the back of a trout."* 



Fig. 36. — Eude drawing of a fishing-scene on the scapiihi of an ox. Laugerie Basse. 



Fig. 36 is a reproduction of an extremely rude drawing of a fishing-scene, 

 on the scapula of an ox, also discovered by M. Massenat at Laugerie Basse. 

 The sketch is thus described by him : — 



" This drawing represents a rudely-executed human form with an immense 



*Dupont: Les "Batons de Commandement " de la Caverne de Goyet; Materiaux ; Vol. V, 1809; p. 318; 

 figure on Plate 16. — Professor W. Boyd Dawkins thinks this object might have been an arrow-striiightener {Gave 

 Hunting, London, 1874, p. 349). 



