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IVORY AND THE ELEPHANT 



carved in a piece of that animal's antler, and was unearthed 

 at Laugerie-Basse. On the wall of the cave of Les Com- 

 barelles, Dordogne, are engraved as many as fourteen rep- 

 resentations of the mammoth, much more realistically 

 portrayed than in the rude etching of this animal noted above. 

 The effect of many of these cave incisings was emphasized 

 by darkening the outlines with oxide of manganese.* 



The "Grotto du Pape" furnished, in 1897, another even 

 more important specimen of the plastic art in ivory of primi- 



Pbehistoric Ivobt Carving, called the Venus of Brassempouy. Found at Bras- 

 sempouy-en-Chalosse, in the "Grotto du Pape." Front and side views; natural size. 

 From M. Hoemes, " Urgeschichte der bildenden Kunst in Europa," Wien, 1898. 



tive man. This is also the figure of a woman, of which only 

 the torso and one of the thighs remain. The modelling here 

 is superior to that of the so-called "Venus de Brassempouy," 

 the ungraceful exaggeration of this figure not appearing in 

 the more recently discovered sculpture. f Perhaps even 



*Ibid., pp. 540; 552, Figures. 



tHoernes, "Urgeschichte der bildenden Kunst in Europa," Wien, 1898, pp. 686, 687, PI. 

 II, Figs. 11-13. 



