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paint. Hngraving and fresco are usually associated in the same 
figure. The coloring matter was, in some cases, applied after the 
engraving; while in others the process was reversed. Again some 
figures are a piecework of engraving and fresco. Some are engraved 
Entranee 
Fic. 7.—Fioor plan of the cavern of Font-de-Gaume (Dordogne). The numbers indicate 
the position of the engravings and paintings on the walls. 
only. In certain cases the outlines of the animal are simply traced 
by a single stroke of the brush or pencil, usually in black. Where 
the contours are filled in, various tints from black to red are usually 
employed. The outlines are seldom marred by blotches or evidences 
of an uncertain stroke. 
Fig. 8.—Engraving of a lion or panther, from Font-de-Gaume. After Capitan and Breuil. 
C. r., Congr. intern, d’anthr. et d’arch. préhs., vol. 1, p. 388, Monaco, 1906. 
Of the more than eighty figures described already from Font-de- 
Gaume, forty-nine represent the bison, four the reindeer, four the 
horse, three the antelope, two the mammoth, one the stag, one Felis 
deo, one the wolf (see pl. 10), one Rhinoceros tichorhinus (see pl. 10), 
six various signs. A number have not yet been determined. 
