. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 37. THEKE CALVES' HEADS, ON KEINDEEB ANTLER, BOTH .SIDES THE SAME. FRAG- MENT OF HANDLE OF PONIARD. Laugerle Basse. Collection, Massenat. Oast, Cat. No. 99857, size. Fig. 38. calves' (1) HEADS ENGRAVED ON BONE. Laugerie Basse, Dordogue. Collection, Massenat. Natural size. bottom edges of the handle have been wrought into festoons, with cres- cents engraved opposite each x)oint of the festoons. The sculpture is entirel
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 37. THEKE CALVES' HEADS, ON KEINDEEB ANTLER, BOTH .SIDES THE SAME. FRAG- MENT OF HANDLE OF PONIARD. Laugerle Basse. Collection, Massenat. Oast, Cat. No. 99857, size. Fig. 38. calves' (1) HEADS ENGRAVED ON BONE. Laugerie Basse, Dordogue. Collection, Massenat. Natural size. bottom edges of the handle have been wrought into festoons, with cres- cents engraved opposite each x)oint of the festoons. The sculpture is entirely ornamental, except so far as it may roughen the handle for pre- hensile purposes. The opposite side of the handle is similarly engraved. Fig. 38 represents an engraved bone from Laugerie Basse. The engravings are supposed to be calves, as in fig. 37. It was one of the peculiarities of the art work of this epoch that in such examples as we are now considering the animals or heads engraved followed each other in single file. They appeared to be always uniform in size, height, age, sex, and species. Ruminants (?).—Fig. 39 is one of those uncertain animals classed by Lartet and deMortillet as ruminants, leaving the species undetermined. Lartet says: ^ The size and shortness of the shonlder, while exclnding the reindeer, the stag, and the horse, might yet serve for a bovine animal, but the fracture at the attachment of the horns de- prives us of the means of judging if it be of this character. The withers do not seem high enough for the aurochs; or, at least, they would do only for a young individual. The marks for hair, in- dicated on different parts of the body, are also distributed with intelligence for the purpose of making the drawing more effective. The specimen was found by Lartet and Christy in the Grotto Les Eyzies, and is in Muse'e St. Germain. Natural size. thc Muscc St. Germalu. Dc Mortillct be- lieves that the mark on the left shoulder represents an arrow or javelin
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