UNFOLDING OF MAN’S INTELLIGENCE 
Skins have, it is true, been worn in warm countries; but 
the original motive there seems to have been mainly magi- 
cal. They were thought to confer upon the wearer the 
qualities of the animals to which they once belonged, just 
as did necklaces and bracelets of teeth and claws (Fig. 33). 
It seems to have been for this reason that a leopard skin 
came to be an emblem of rank and power among the 
Egyptian Pharaohs. The lion’s skin, which distinguished 
Fic. 33. Necklace of the later Old Stone Age, from the Grimaldi caves, com- 
posed of deer teeth, fish vertebrae, and shells. It was found with the skeleton 
of a young man. After Verneau 
Hercules, doubtless originated in a similar idea, when lions 
still existed in the lands about the eastern Mediterranean. 
Another great idea which must have dawned upon prim- 
itive man pretty far back in his career was that of fasten- 
ing things together by tying them. The invention of 
string enabled man to do countless things he otherwise 
could not have done, though, no doubt, he realized only 
very gradually the full extent of its usefulness. The earli- 
est and for a very long time the only string must have been 
that provided by nature, in the form of tough vines and 
tendrils of various sorts. With these, tools and weapons 
and objects of magic could be more conveniently carried 
about; for they might now be slung from the waist or over 
the shoulder or about the neck. With them, too, bundles 
could be made of firewood, edible roots, and the like, for 
convenience in transporting or keeping. 
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