SECRETS OF EARTH AND SEA 



In Fig. 20 we have a wonderful outline of a bear 

 engraved on a piece of stone, from the cave of Teyjat, in 

 the Dordogne ; Fig. 22, the head of a wolf on the wall of 

 the cave of Combarelles, Dordogne ; Fig. 23, lion (mane- 

 less), engraved on the wall of the same cave ; Fig. 21, small 

 bear, engraved on a pebble ; Fig. 24, a duck engraved on 

 a piece of reindeer's antler (Gourdan, Haute Garonne) ; 

 Fig. 17, the square-mouthed, two- 

 horned rhinoceros, drawn in red 

 (ochre) outline on the wall of the 

 cavern of the Font de Gaume. This 

 drawing is 2j ft. long. In successful 

 characterization the bear (Fig. 20), the 

 wolf (Fig. 22), and the feline (Fig. 23) 

 far surpass any of the attempts at 

 animal drawing made by modern sav- 

 ages, such as the Bushmen of South 

 Africa, Californian Indians, and Aus- 

 tralian black fellows. 

 FIG. 25. Female Fig. 27 is an outline sketch of a 



figure carved in rock . carved statue lg in> high proved 

 oolitic limestone * 



from Willendorf by the kind of flint implements found 

 near Krems, Lower with it to be of Aurignacian age. It 

 Austria (1908). was discovered on a rubble-covered 



Half the size (linear) f c . .. rr L T * .* 



of the original. face of a rock-cliff at Laussel, in the 



Dordogne, by M. Lalanne. The woman 

 holds a bovine horn in her right hand. The face is 

 obliterated by " weathering." Four other human statues 

 were found in the same place, one a male, much broken, 

 but obviously standing in the position taken by (Fig. 28) 

 a man throwing a spear or drawing a bow. 1 Near these 

 were found a frieze of life-sized horses carved in high 



*M. Reinach relates ("Repertoire de 1'Art Quatermaire") that two of 

 these statues were in 1912 deliberately stolen by the German Verworn pro- 

 fessor of Physiology in Bonn, who repaid the hospitality of M. Lalanne by 



