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exhibits considerable skill in working such a hard material as 

 our granite. Still in form and in details it shows a con- 

 tinuation of the same traditional type. We find the same 

 projecting breasts and necklace as in all the other female 

 statues of the series. But there is an advance shown in the 

 modelling of the face, and an attempt has been made to 

 represent the neck by making the chin project, and though the 

 features of the face are still very rude, greater care has been 



Figs. 7 and 8.—Fivizzanno, Italy. 



taken in delineating them. The personal ornaments are 

 also more carefully carved. These consist of a row of small 

 circular discs round the forehead and extending once down 

 both sides of the face, but now only visible on the left side. 

 Round the neck is a semi-circle of ray-like projections. Sir 

 Edgar MacCulloch and the Rev. W. (J. Lukis thought they 

 represented the folds of a hood, but this supposition is rather 

 improbable and I am inclined to think they represent the 

 typical necklace found on all of the female type of these 

 statues. Possibly they are intended to represent a necklace 

 or tore of bronze plates or pendeloques. M. G. de Mortillet 

 who wrote an article on this statue in IJ Homme Prehistoriqite 

 for June, 1910, thought he could distinguish signs of a band 



