CHAP, vii.] DRESS AND ORNAMENTS. 211 



the outlines incised on the antlers in the caves of Au- 

 vergne represent the skin stretched out after it had been 

 removed from the body of the animal, the incision being 

 made, as at the present time, from the lower jaw to 

 the tail, and the legs and tail being preserved. 1 The 

 fashioning of wooden handles for the implements with 

 their imperfectly edged tools must have occupied a 

 large portion of the time of the men in the intervals 

 of hunting. 



Dress and Ornaments. 



Their clothes were made of the furs of the various 

 animals, reindeer, bisons, horses, and others, sewn to- 

 gether with sinews like those of the Eskimos, and their 



FIG. 75. Glove on perforated Canine of Bear, Duruthy Cave, . 



arms and hands were protected by long gloves with 

 three or four fingers. / Sketches of these incised on 

 bone and antler have been discovered in caves in Au- 

 vergne and in the Pyrenees) (Fig. 75). They probably 

 painted their faces with red oxide of iron, lumps of 

 which have been found in the English, French, and 

 Swiss caves, and they wore amulets and necklaces made 

 of perforated shells, both fossil and recent, of bone 



, l See Itel. Aq., B. PI. ix. Fig. 4, and B. PL xxiv. Fig. 8. 



