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in one colour, forming real silhouettes of the animals thus de- 
picted. 
Some of the engravings in the cave of Combarelles have been 
carefully copied and published by the explorers, from which 
the following figures are reproduced {Revue de CEcole d'Anthro- 
pologie , January 1902). 
Fig. 24. — A group of animals on the wall of the cave of Combarelles. 
Fig. 21 shows a group of animals on a portion of the wall. 
Fig. 25 represents a pony with a large head, shaggy mane, and 
a bushy tail. It has been suggested by MM. Capitan and 
Breuil that the animal was domesticated, bridled, and draped 
with some kind of ornamental covering. Reindeer, wild goat, 
Fig. 25. — Outline of horse supposed to be domesticated. (Combarelles.) 
and mammoth will be readily recognised under figs. 26, 27, 
and 28. It will be of interest to compare with the latter 
figure that of the skeleton of the mammoth (fig. 29) whose 
carcass was discovered in 1799 embedded in frozen tundra at 
the mouth of the Lena, Siberia. Seven years later it was 
purchased by Mr Adams for the museum of St Petersburg, but 
in the interval dogs and wild animals had eaten the flesh, and 
only the bones and fragments of the skin with its long hair 
could be recovered. The carcass of another mammoth was 
