THE YOUNG DRAUGHTSMAN. 



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of it as if it were a forbidden thing in one of General Pitt- 

 Rivers's drawings, executed by a Zulu woman (Fig. 11, b). 



From this common way of spiking the head on two forked or 

 upright legs there is one important deviation. The contour of 

 the head may be left incomplete, and the upper occipital part of 

 the curve be run on into the leg lines, as in the accompanying ex- 

 ample by a Jamaica girl of seven (Fig. 12). I have met with no 

 example of this among English children. 



The drawing of the trunk may commence in one of two ways. 

 With English children it appears often to emerge as an expan- 

 sion or prolongation of the head contour, as in the accompanying 

 drawings of the front and side view (Figs. 13, a and &).* Or, in 

 the second place, the leg scheme may be modified, either by draw- 



FIG. 13. 



ing a horizontal line across them and so making a rectangle, as in 

 the accompanying drawing by a boy of six, or by shading in the 

 upper part of the space, as in the other figure by a girl of five 

 (Fig. 13, c and d). A curious and interesting variant of this sec- 

 ond mode of introducing the trunk is to be found in the draw- 

 ings of den Steinen's Brazilians, where the leg lines are either 

 kept parallel for a while and then made to diverge, or are pinched 

 in below what may be called the pelvis, though not completely 

 joined (Fig. 13, e and /). 



When the trunk is distinctly marked off, it is apt to remain 

 small in proportion to the head, as in the following two drawings 



* A drawing given by Andree, op. cit., plate ii, 11, seems to me to illustrate a somewhat 

 similar attempt to develop the trunk out of the head. 



