DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES BONE IMPLEMENTS, ETC. [B. XXX. XXXI.] MI 



Fig. 1. A fragment of a carved stem of antler ; it is slightly curved, oblong in 

 section towards the apex, and suhcylindrical at the broken end. On the figured 

 face is an isolated, eared, hornless head, possibly Bovine, with a shaggy jowl, 

 succeeded by a flower-like outline. On the other face two somewhat similar 

 flower-like figures are seen, succeeded towards the apex by two patterns con- 

 sisting of an obliquely transverse furrow crossed in one instance by four, and 

 in the other by three short and slightly curved notches. The concave margin 

 has seven transverse unequal notches (perhaps Tally-marks), some of which 

 show themselves in the figure above the head and flower. The convex margin 

 has a long shallow notch and two blunt barb-like projections, beyond which 

 it is partially corroded on the figured side, but somewhat polished, perhaps by 

 use, on the opposite face. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 2. A broken Baton or Pogamagan, made of a shed antler, ornamented with a 

 row of Horses* oh each side. These appear to be standing, have large heads as 

 usual tj hog-manes, excepting two, one on each side of the butt-end; and their 

 tails seem to be rather long and narrow. 



The perforation interferes with the head of a Horse on each side ; also with 

 the tail of one, and the head of the other Horse, at the butt-end ; for one of 

 these is reversed in position. Both have the mane indicated by the usual line 

 parallel with the neck. 



The concave edge of the antler is ornamented with a shallow, incised, mesial 

 line and numerous short oblique notches set off on each side of it. 



From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 3. A fragment of a large perforated Pogamagan or Baton of antler, orna- 

 mented with a shallow spiral furrow encircling the stem. 

 From Laugerie Basse. 



* See Prof. Owen's remarks on some figured Horses from the Bruniquel and La-Madelaine Caves, their 

 identity with the fossil Equus of Auvergne, and the evident accuracy of the prinueval artist ' Philos. 

 Transact.,' 1869, pp. 517, 535-540. 



t Respecting these large-headed Horses, our friend Mr. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., obligingly writes : 

 " There is a most important point for you, which I lighted on in the Museum at Lyons. The figures of the 

 Horses from Perigord are remarkable for the large size of the head ; and the Horse must have been a clumsy 

 pony with the head of a cart-horse. That this is literally true is proved by a skeleton just set up by my 

 friend M. Lortet, from the Station de Solutre. It is that of a pony with a huge ugly head. Your palaeo- 

 lithic artists had an eye for proportion, and, where they can be tested, are literally accurate." (Nov. 28, 1873.) 



See also M. E. Piette's account of the similar Horses figured on bone from the Gourdan Cave, Haute 

 Garonne ; < Materiaux pour ITiist. de 1'Homme,' 2- ser., vol. v. pp. 69 & 70 ; and ' Bullet. Soc. Anthrop. 



Paris,' 1873. 



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