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and implements,&quot; says Vogt,&quot; consisting of simple, straight, 

 angular, or crossed lines, exhibit a certain sense of beauty ; 

 but the drawings of animals, as discovered by MM. Lartet 

 and Garrigou, are still more surprising. They ar/; mostly 

 engraved on bones, but also on slate. Those found by M. 

 Garrigou represent heads and tails of fishes ; those in pos 

 session of M. Lartet represent large mammals, among which 

 the reindeer is easily recognized by the antlers. * * The 

 masterpiece in Lartet s collection is a handle carved from 

 the antlers of a reindeer, a real sculptured work, the body 

 of the animal being so turned and twisted that it forms a 

 handle for a boy s hand. All other drawings are in sharp 

 and firm outlines, graved upon the surface of the bone, and 

 it may be seen that the artist, in working it, turned the 

 bone in various directions.&quot; The most interesting of all 

 these relics of primeval art is the delineation upon ivory 

 of the outlines of the hairy mammoth in a style which, 

 though rudely and carelessly executed, leaves no doubt of 

 the identity of the original of the picture. These people 

 evidently possessed a marked predisposition to art. The 

 rude hunter, wearied in the chase, amused himself in repro 

 ducing upon ivory and stone the forms that had excited 

 his interest, and upon which undoubtedly he depended for 

 subsistence and perhaps for service. 



Lastly, primeval man was endowed with a religious na 

 ture. He formed numerous utensils consecrated to the 

 ceremonies of religion. He buried his dead in grottoes 

 closed with slabs, as the Jews continued to do at a later 

 day. The recumbent position of many of the skeletons 

 shows that, like the dead of the ancient Peruvians, they 

 were entombed with an observance of religious rites. Like 

 the American Indian, he provided his deceased friend with 

 food and arms to supply his necessities while on the jour 

 ney to another world. These are facts of extreme signifi- 



