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been executed and viewed by aid of torch or lamp-light. 

 They probably were exhibited as part of a ceremony 



Fig. 18. — Bison from the roof of the cavern or Altamira : engraved, and also 

 painted in three colours (5 feet long). 



^fej/A 



Fig. 19. — Bison : wall engravings (5 feet long) filled in with colour 

 (Font de Gaume). 



connected with witchcraft and magic. These, like the 

 mammoths and all the specimens figured here, were 

 executed in the Reindeer, or later Pleistocene period. 



