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SECRETS OF EARTH AND SEA 



In Fig. 20 we have a wonderful outline of a bear 

 engraved on a piece of stone, from the cave of Teyjat, in 

 the Dordogne ; Fig. 22, the head of a wolf on the wall of 

 the cave of Combarelles, Dordogne ; Fig. 23, lion (mane- 

 less), engraved on the wall of the same cave ; Fig. 21, small 

 bear, engraved on a pebble ; Fig. 24, a duck engraved on 

 a piece of reindeer's antler (Gourdan, Haute Garonne) ; 

 Fig. 17, the square-mouthed, two- 

 horned rhinoceros, drawn in red 

 (ochre) outline on the wall of the 

 cavern of the Font de Gaume. This 

 drawing is 2 J ft. long. In successful 

 characterization the bear (Fig. 20), the 

 wolf (Fig. 22), and -the feline (Fig. 23) 

 far surpass any of the attempts at 

 animal drawing made by modern sav- 

 ages, such as the Bushmen of South 

 Africa, Californian Indians, and Aus- 

 tralian black fellows. 



Fig. 27 is an outline sketch of a 



rock-carved statue, 18 in. high, proved 



from" wiiiendorf by the kind of flint implements found 



near Krems, Lower with it to be of Aurignacian age. It 



Austria (1908). ^^g discovered on a rubble-covered 



Half the size (linear) - r 1 1 • a- ^ t 1 • ii 



of the original. ^^^^ °' ^ rock-clitt^ at Laussel, m the 



Dordogne, by M. Lalanne. The woman 



holds a bovine horn in her right hand. The face is 



obliterated by " weathering." Four other human statues 



were found in the same place, one a male, much broken, 



but obviously standing in the position taken by (Fig. 28) 



a man throwing a spear or drawing a bow.^ Near these 



were found a frieze of life-sized horses carved in high 



' M. Reinach relates ("Repertoire de I'Art Quatermaire ") that two of 

 these statues were in 1912 deliberately stolen by the German Verworn pro- 

 fessor of Physiology in Bonn, who repaid the hospitality of M. Lalanne by 



Fig. 25. — Female 

 figure carved in 

 oolitic limestone 



