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mythological scenes are known. In these the figures are those of man 
with an animal's head, a long tail, and very conspicuous genitalia. We 
have now in the Museum three similar but graved scenes. They thus 
bridge the arts of sculpture and painting, and denote that the Bush 
people are or were capable of both. 
One fact, however, prominently stands out, and it is the naturalism 
expressed by the sculptor especially, but also by the painter. The 
animal's attitude is life-like. The etching of a female Koodoo, evidently 
getting alarmed, could not be surpassed ; that of the elephant flying 
before the hunter armed with a bow could not also be surpassed, and as 
for the technique, the corrugation of the skin is reproduced, the short 
tail is in the relief, etc., but man himself is only an accessory ; few cuts 
with a stone delineate it well as a whole, but for him there is no especial 
enthusiasm. He is not the quarry ; on this quarry the man's mind is 
concentrated, and on that alone, and so thoroughly is it so that the rest, 
man, is a mere accessory. This comes from being a hunter, the 
descendant of a race of hunters, one who had survived because he was of 
a race of hunters, whose craft primarily developed in one direction, the 
chase, to which everything else was subsidiary. In his earliest day his 
growing intelligence discovered the boucher, which it improved on until 
more craft developed, when the poisoned arrow replaced the much more 
ponderous outillage, but never replaced it completely. 
It is for the reasons aforesaid that I claim the Bushman to be the 
descendant of Upper Palaeolithic Man, and to have remained such until 
its ultimate disappearance, which took place yesterday, because as a unit 
he is no more. 
