Boch- Engravings of Animals and the Human Figure. 419 



as so far no relic of art in any form has been found in their shelters 

 or sepultures. Could it be that they were the work of a negro race 

 of which the Berg Damara may perhaps be a decadent scion ? " 



One thing, however, seems to be certain, and that is if whether 

 that art originated in South Africa, or in Northern Africa, there must 

 have been intercourse or migrations from south to north, or more 

 likely from north to south. We cannot get away from these conclu- 

 sions when we remember : (a) the presence of rock-engravings in 

 Mauritania similar to those found here ; {h) the abundance of stone 

 implements of similar shape and technique of manufacture as those 

 occurring in the Congo as well as in Algeria ; (c) the stone awls and 

 borers, some of them of the pignay type, for piercing and making 

 disks of the ostrich shell found in Southern Algeria, Soudan, Egypt, 

 and even Abyssinia,! and absolutely similar to those met with in 

 South Africa ; {d) the discovery on the high plateaux of Nyanza, 

 and also to the north of Kilimandjaro and in Somaliland of the 

 typical " tikoes," or perforated stones, found so commonly in South 

 Africa. 



* The origin of the Berg Damara is quite unknown. People of a Bantu race, 

 they speak Hottentot only. 



t Cf. Verneau in Foureau's Mission Saharienne. Documents historiques, p. 110, 

 fig. 396; Flamand, Prehistorique dans le Sahara, Kevue Afric, 1906, p. 226, &g. 





