28 THE HAIRY MAMMOTH. 


















duced, and lo, an off-hand sketch of his trophy of the chase 
by some prehistoric Cummings or Baker! d 
As specimens of earliest art they are certainly creditable 4 
and almost rank with drawing of animals represented in As- 
syrian, Egyptian, or Aztec art, at least surpassing the hiero- — 
glyphics of the North American Indians. The peculiar shape 
of the head of the Siberian Mammoth, with its characteristic — 
up-curved enormous tusks, and trunk hanging down at ease, — 
and the hairy mane, which no living species of elephant pos- — 
sesses, evince a quick eye, excellent perceptive powers, and — 
an artistic touch given by the prehistoric artist, which cer- 
tainly discovers the germs of dawning art in the Cave- dwe : 
ers of France. : 
From portions of several skulls and a single lower jaw of l q 
man found in the caves and gravel-beds of Europe, anato- | 
mists of high authority have, we cannot but think too hastily, — 
referred their possessors to the most degraded of savage 
races.” 
The bas-reliefs and inlaid sketches of our cave-dwellers 
rather ally them, from the evidence of their art-remains, as a 
very high authority, Professor Steenstrup suggests, to the 
tribes of Eastern Asia. He states that Chamisso, the Italian 


graphic copy, published in the PEDE Popular Journal of Natural History, reduced 
oe balt, lyi rom Lartet’s original wing. 

arq di 1, on the banks of the Vésère in 
Dordogne, another engraving of the Mamm sashes IA y DA slate. In speaking of 
the accuracy of the sketches he says, “ The artists of the A ugerie bave made no carica- 
tures, and Gealed ltt e to the fan cifal. If the rough sketches of art in its first steps 


seem to ; ru 
lously respected. I will cit j; h th es 
with a few strokes a combat of the reindeer. _ The victor is s repres eta 
the truthfulness of which is sı y as isan A dof 


the reindeer obtained also in one of the stations of the Augerie. In view of such facts 
it seems to be inadmissible to suppose, that, in te a purely fanciful drawing of 


head, an aboriginal should have precisely reproduced that of an y thes 
of which we have constantly foun ound the e remains in the same > conditions « of burial; and 
ters of a proboscidian of whose existence he was ignorant.” — nnal: Scien 
Naturelles, 5e ser. T. 4, p. 361. 1865, $ nm 
oe as primitive folk have been lar-science 
writers, the unkindeat blow of all has been dealt by the Rey. D. I. Heath London 
n the 
Anthropological Review, April, 1967. Readily accepting the su 
pposed ape-like form 
race, he gravely propounds the theory that the “ ne pe ane were 
