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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| 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 

 by the kind of flint implements found 

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

 Austria (1908). was discovered on a rubble-covered 



of die original " '" ^ ace °^ a roc k-cliff at Laussel, in 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. 1 Near these 

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



Fig. 25. — Female 

 figure carved in 

 oolitic limestone 

 from \V i 1 1 e n d o r f 



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

 these statues were in 191 2 deliberately stolen by the German Verworn pro- 

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



